They smiled. They applauded. Some appeared to laugh with joy.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was signing legislation that removes the state’s previous restrictions governing abortion after 24 weeks and replaces them with a standard based on a physician’s professional judgment.
But let’s put that into language everyone can understand.
The legislation contains no specific gestational-age cutoff. That means its legal framework can extend through the final weeks of pregnancy—right up until birth—subject to the physician’s professional judgment.
Forget the clinical terminology for a moment.
Picture a woman eight or nine months pregnant. The baby visibly moves beneath her clothing. The nursery may already be prepared. The car seat installed. Tiny clothes folded in a drawer.
We are talking about a child who could potentially be born and placed into his mother’s arms.
And as the legislation was signed, people applauded.
Perhaps that tells us something even more disturbing than the legislation itself.
From “Safe, Legal And Rare” To Applause
There was a time when even America’s most prominent abortion-rights politicians portrayed abortion as something society should hope to minimize.
Bill Clinton famously said abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.”
The word rare mattered.
It implicitly acknowledged that abortion wasn’t something to celebrate.
Look at where we are now.
Abortion is called freedom.
It is called empowerment.
It is called healthcare.
Removing restrictions is called progress.
And politicians gather around a desk while cameras roll and supporters applaud.
We haven’t simply changed abortion laws.
We have changed our attitude toward abortion itself.
Isaiah Warned About A World Like This
Nearly 2,800 years ago, the prophet Isaiah issued a warning that sounds remarkably relevant:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” — Isaiah 5:20
Isaiah wasn’t merely describing people doing evil things. Human beings have always sinned.
He was describing something more dangerous: moral inversion.
Eventually the labels themselves become reversed.
What was once considered tragic becomes liberation.
What was once shameful becomes celebrated.
What once produced sorrow eventually produces applause.
That is why the Massachusetts signing ceremony deserves our attention.
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Don’t Think “24 Weeks.” Think About The Baby.
Political debates have a way of hiding reality behind numbers.
Twenty-four weeks. Thirty weeks. Thirty-six weeks. Forty weeks.
For millions of people—particularly men who have never experienced pregnancy—those numbers can sound abstract.
So put them into terms everyone understands.
A typical full-term pregnancy is approximately 40 weeks.
Thirty-six weeks means roughly a month before the due date.
Thirty-eight weeks means birth may be just days away.
At that stage, nobody needs a medical degree to understand what is inside the womb.
There are arms. Legs. Fingers. Toes. A face. A beating heart.
The baby moves and kicks strongly enough that those movements can sometimes be seen through the mother’s abdomen.
The hospital bag may already be packed.
Family members may be waiting for the phone call.
Strangers see the expectant mother and ask:
When is the baby due?”
Nobody asks when the fetus is due.
