Massachusetts scrapped its 24-week limit on abortion on Monday, handing doctors sole authority over late-pregnancy terminations and making the state the 10th, by most counts, to operate with no gestational cutoff as the issue heads into November's midterms.
Governor Maura Healey signed House Bill 5595, titled 'An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care', at a State House ceremony, ending a framework that had allowed abortions after 24 weeks only to protect a patient's life or in cases of a fatal fetal diagnosis. The law takes effect immediately.
