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What my son's ultrasound taught me about abortion — and Massachusetts ignores

Massachusetts erased key late-term abortion limits. At 24 weeks, that’s not a minor change — it’s a moral line crossed.

By Kaylee McGhee White Fox News

Published August 13, 2026 5:12pm EDT

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Kaylee McGhee White blasts new Massachusetts law allowing abortions later in pregnancy

Fox News contributor Kaylee McGhee White offers insights as mother of a 1-year-old and political commentator

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My son turned 1 year old last month, but I still have his ultrasound pictures up on the fridge. They were the first time I got to see his little hands, his feet, and even his eyes open wide and looking, somehow, right at me. He was 20 weeks along in that picture. Already kicking. Already reaching. Already becoming the boy who now pulls himself up on that same refrigerator door.

I thought of him — of those pictures curling on my fridge — as I watched Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey sign a law this week that strips protections from every baby at the same stage of pregnancy against late-term abortion.

The state’s new law, the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, guts existing legislation that restricted abortions at 24 weeks and later to cases involving the mother’s life, physical or mental health, or severe fetal diagnoses, and replaces those specific statutory conditions with a sweeping new standard stating that "an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician." No gestational limit. No requirement that any particular maternal or fetal condition be present.

DEM GOV MAURA HEALEY SIGNS SWEEPING MASSACHUSETTS BILL ALLOWING ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH

Surrounded by cheering supporters at the signing,........

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