Massachusetts House Approves Doctor-Determined Late-Term Abortion Bill
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The Massachusetts House voted 119-33 to allow later-term abortions after 24 weeks based on doctors’ professional judgment, removing existing exceptions for lethal fetal diagnoses and maternal life. The measure shifts decision-making to medical professionals with patient informed consent and now goes to the Senate, with no immediate comment from the governor.
- Massachusetts House passes later-term abortion bill WCVB
- Massachusetts House Passes Bill That Would Loosen Late-Term Abortion Rules The New York Times
- House Democrats poised to pass bill to make Massachusetts’ late-term abortion laws among nation’s broadest The Boston Globe
- Judgment of physicians at center of advancing abortion bill State House News Service
- House votes to ease Massachusetts' late-term abortion restrictions Axios
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