Maura Healey, the Democrat governor of Massachusetts, would have you believe she is focused on ordinary governance, but lately she seems to be dabbling in obstetrics and childcare.

Originally posted at American Thinker

As a political entity, liberalism is confusing. Maura Healey, the Democrat governor of Massachusetts, would have you believe she is focused on ordinary governance, but lately she seems to be dabbling in obstetrics and childcare, couching advocacy for filicide as “prioritizing patient access to care.” How altruistic of her.

On August 10th, 2026, surrounded by a barking bevy of tickled-pink, flipper-clapping cows, Healey tipped her hat to summer’s end by signing legislation that will take effect in November 2026 in Massachusetts. This law will allow abortion after 24 weeks. When this takes effect, there will be no time limit on imposing an involuntary death sentence on a gestating human. Healey’s new policy will permit physicians (aka healthcare workers) to perform late-term abortions based on subjective “professional judgment.” That means that, if mom and doc decide it’s fitting, they can voluntarily terminate the life of an unborn baby up to the moment of birth.

For context, what do you think the “professional judgment” of the famous, retired third-trimester abortion provider Dr. Shelley Sella would be if a pregnant woman came to her seeking to end a 36-week pregnancy for whatever reason — restrictive or nonrestrictive?

In other words, under the new law, a willing healthcare professional would assess the mother’s mental and physical health and the health of a baby whose head may already be in the birth canal. If any of those factors are deemed sketchy by Doctor Jekyll, assisted by his dutiful right-hand NP, Mr. Hyde, condoned by Maura Healey, the twosome could then resolve the pesky problem of a full-term fetus refusing to die by administering an injection to induce cardiac arrest, followed by induction of labor and delivery.

Next comes the ultimate head jerk, no pun intended.

About a month after Healey decided to give mothers and their physicians the authority to carry out the death sentence on fully viable human beings, the governor feigned concern for babies who might survive once her statewide fetal-execution initiative takes full effect.

This is what the Butcher of Beacon Hill, Maura Healey, had to say:

Becoming a mother is a profound life change, and every parent deserves support — not just during pregnancy, but in the months that follow. Postpartum depression, anxiety, and other maternal mental health conditions are real medical conditions, and no mother should feel ashamed to ask for help or feel like she has to navigate this journey alone. We’re working to expand postpartum care, identify concerns earlier, and connect families to the mental health support they need, because taking care of moms means taking care of the whole family.

The glaring question is: why do that?

A few facts stand out to the trained eye. Although Healey speaks as if from experience, the governor has no idea what she’s talking about, having never experienced any part of pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum struggles. Conflicted Maura, the pro-choice Catholic’s, only mothering experience is helping to raise partner Joanna Lydgate’s two children, ages 12 and 15.

As noted, injecting stupidity into the conversation is a standard liberal trait, especially among the pink-hat crowd, who fancy they know everything about everything. These are the women who practice self-styled religion, promote a made-up identity, espouse morally relativistic views, and pretend they are the epicenter of manufactured family dynamics.

Furthermore, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was established in 1780 and is 246 years old. For time immemorial, women have experienced “postpartum depression, anxiety, and other maternal mental health conditions,” and without the help of Maura Healey, they somehow managed to navigate the symptoms without resorting to strangling three of their children with bell cords, apron ties, or, more recently, exercise bands.

The truth is that lately, Maura Healey is full of advice and more than willing to legislatively impose solutions through a multitude of statewide efforts concerning babies both dead and alive.

Maura believes that “taking care of moms means taking care of the whole family,” even if “taking care” includes flushing a newborn or two down the garbage disposal when “professional judgment” deems it appropriate. Is that why one month, Maura is fine authorizing the killing of an unborn baby; the following month, she unveils a plan to proactively spend tax money to check on a child and mother’s welfare through a program proposed for statewide expansion called Welcome Family?

Is Healey intentionally inciting policy tension, or is she simply eager to worm her way into the homes of Massachusetts families who kept their newborns despite a diagnosis of trisomy 21, despite financial hardship, or because abortion is abhorrent to their pro-life convictions? Either way, if a baby makes it safely out of the womb, the good governor will benevolently send in the Stasi to case out the situation and report back to Normannenstraße headquarters on Beacon Hill in Boston.

At least for now, abortion is still voluntary, so if Welcome Family is also voluntary, why are state enforcers involved? In practice, how voluntary is “voluntary” anyway? What triggers a referral? And what happens if Mom changes her mind about the visit, exercises her right to choose, and declines a screening altogether, or refuses a referral after a screening?

The irony is that Healey will likely send health care workers and nurses who could have done double duty, assisting designated physicians in the abortion of the same baby last week, that they’re checking in on this week. Someone needs to ask Maura: which is it, the garbage bin or state-provided coupons for Gerber baby food? What changes when a newborn narrowly crosses the birth line that the state moves from termination to funding teething rings?

Either way, if Nurse Ratched sniffs out something sketchy during a voluntary visit, Massachusetts law requires another layer of bureaucracy: filing both an oral and written report with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) detailing the suspected abuse or neglect within 48 hours. Imagine that the same people who are fine with aborting a baby right before it’s born are suddenly concerned about infant abuse and neglect?

So is this the official drill? Plainclothes Stasi will descend on a family with a newborn to evaluate the family’s physical and mental health. Based on the findings, the mother-child pair will be voluntarily linked with the appropriate services or reported to DCF.

Given that Maura Healey seems engrossed in the before-birth/after-birth distinction, the legitimate question is where Massachusetts draws the line on the state’s interest in protecting children. If Massachusetts’s chief executive thinks expanding abortion discretion after 24 weeks is a good idea and then almost immediately emphasizes state-supported protection, screening, and welfare checks for newborns whose executions it sanctioned the prior month, maybe Ms. Healey is the one in need of a mental health screening and a welfare check.

Here’s some advice for the Massachusetts governor: How about you go back to your gubernatorial duties, take your policies far from the stirrups of every Massachusetts OB-GYN office, and stop trying to use the power of the pen to exercise authority over human life and to insert yourself into family dynamics that don’t involve you. Instead, why not scurry back to Arlington, Massachusetts, and play stepmom to your lesbian partner’s two kids.