AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Massachusetts strips abortion limits, and a neonatologist warns life-and-death calls rest on flawed screenings
Gov. Maura Healey signed a law making Massachusetts the tenth state to allow abortion up to birth, and a neonatologist says the prenatal tests used to justify late terminations are far less reliable than families are told. Dr. Robin Pierucci, a neonatologist and co-chair of the American College of Pediatricians' Pro-Life Council, told Fox News […] The post Massachusetts strips abortion limits, and a neonatologist warns life-and-death calls rest on flawed screenings appeared first on American Almanac .
Gov. Maura Healey signed a law making Massachusetts the tenth state to allow abortion up to birth, and a neonatologist says the prenatal tests used to justify late terminations are far less reliable than families are told. Dr. Robin Pierucci, a neonatologist and co-chair of the American College of Pediatricians' Pro-Life Council, told Fox News Digital that the new Massachusetts law raises grave medical and ethical questions, starting with the screening tools that drive many late-term abortion decisions. Prenatal imaging, she said, cannot reliably predict how severely a condition will affect a child after birth. Healey signed H. 5595, the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, on Aug. 10, erasing the state's longstanding 24-week…Open