Maura Healey Defends Signing Abortions Up to Birth: I’m a “Proud Catholic”
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s office defended her signing of a law that legalizes abortions up to birth.
Healey claims she is a “proud Catholic,” even as pro-life leaders and Catholic officials condemned the measure as a radical expansion that allows the killing of viable unborn children up to the moment of birth.
Healey signed H.5595 on August 10. The law, which takes effect
November 8, eliminates prior requirements that abortions at or after 24
weeks be limited to cases involving the mother’s life or physical or
mental health, or certain serious fetal diagnoses.
It now essentially makes it so the abortionist can sign off on any abortion for any reason up to birth. ---More...
McKenna West Will Fight in Court for Custody of Baby Gabriel
Surrogate mother McKenna West is preparing a court battle for custody
of Baby Gabriel, the newborn she carried and delivered after refusing
the biological parents’ demand that she abort him because of a prenatal
diagnosis.
West, an Alaska nurse and single mother of two, gave birth to the boy on August 12 in the Dallas area.
The child was diagnosed at about 20 weeks with hypoplastic left heart
syndrome, a severe but treatable heart condition that requires a series
of surgeries beginning in the first weeks of life. The biological
parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed of California, invoked a clause
in the surrogacy contract allowing abortion for an “anomaly” and asked
West to kill Gabriel.
West refused.
She traveled to Texas before the birth so she would be recognized as
the birth mother under state law and named the infant Gabriel. ---More...
