Maura Healey signed a new law Monday eliminating the need for specific medical justifications for abortion past 24 weeks, establishing effectively unlimited abortion up to birth in the state. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs the bill for abortions up to birth as Democrats celebrate. The state’s radically pro-abortion governor signed the law in a ceremony Monday surrounded by clapping women (some wearing white doctors’ coats). “Legalizing elective abortion up to birth on healthy mothers and healthy, pain-capable unborn children is not about protecting the doctor-patient relationship,” responded Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. Yet for years congressional Democrats have consistently voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban elective abortions after five months.