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Massachusetts Just Removed the Limit — Abortion Until Birth · Right Now Hot Takes

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  Imagine this. A state that already allowed late
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  -term abortions under several exceptions just
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  removed the last meaningful limit. After 24 weeks,
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  the only standard left is the professional judgment
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  of the physician. No gestational cutoff. No clear
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  list of life -threatening conditions. Just judgment.
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  Welcome to Right Now Hot Takes. I'm Jim Rand.
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  Governor Maura Healey signed the bill this week.
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  Supporters call it strengthening protections
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  and removing barriers for patients facing complex
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  situations. Critics call it what it is, abortion
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  throughout pregnancy with almost no remaining
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  guardrails. This is not primarily a medical complexity
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  story. This is a values story. For years, the
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  left insisted that late -term abortions were
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  rare, tragic, and only for the most extreme cases
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  involving the life of the mother or lethal fetal
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  anomalies. Then they quietly expanded the language
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  until the exceptions swallowed the rule. Now
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  they have dropped even that pretense in Massachusetts.
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  The new standard is simply the professional judgment
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  of the physician. Young people are being told
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  this is progress, that bodily autonomy has no
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  limits, and that questioning it makes you extreme
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  or anti -woman. But every society that has lost
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  its sense of the value of the most vulnerable
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  eventually loses more than that. Respect for
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  life is not just a religious talking point. It
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  is the foundation of personal responsibility,
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  family, and the idea that some things are not
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  for sale or for pure convenience. Look at the
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  incentives. When the law says the decision is
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  simply professional judgment with no clear boundaries
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  or public accountability, the culture shifts.
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  What was once rare becomes more common. What
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  was once protected becomes optional. The pressure
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  moves in one direction. I love this country because
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  it still has people willing to stand up and say
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  the quiet part out loud. A viable child is not
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  a choice. A society that cannot draw that line
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  will struggle to draw any others with consistency.
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  If you're in your 20s and you're being sold the
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  idea that this is just healthcare between a doctor
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  and a patient, ask what kind of culture you're
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  being asked to inherit. One that protects the
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  strong at every stage of life or one that protects
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  the weak only when it is convenient and politically
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  safe. The left celebrates this as liberation
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  and resistance against the other side. History
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  and basic human intuition suggest it is something
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  closer to abandonment of the most defenseless.
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  We can do better. We have done better. The American
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  tradition of protecting the vulnerable, even
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  when it is hard or unpopular, is not a flaw.
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  It is one of the best things about us. If you
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  enjoyed this episode, please do us a great favor.
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  truth. I'm Jim Rand. I'll see you next time on
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  Right Now Hot Takes.