When the Supreme Court correctly consigned Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history, clear-thinking Americans knew it was a necessary legal correction — not the finish line. The decision restored constitutional order by rejecting a fabricated right to end a pregnancy and returning the issue to the people. For those of us who have spent careers defending the fundamental right to life, that ruling was an opening salvo.

What has followed proves the point. Untethered from any objective moral or legal baseline, a growing number of states have sprinted toward the extreme. Massachusetts is the latest and clearest example.

On August 10, 2026, Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act. The statute strips away the prior framework that limited post-24-week abortions to narrow circumstances — life of the mother, severe fetal conditions, or similar exceptions — and replaces it with a single standard: the physician’s “professional judgment.” No medical review may override that judgment. Massachusetts has effectively removed any clear........

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