Mike Hernandez: On The News (Aug. 11, 2026)
Compiled With Commentary By Mike Hernandez
August 11: Life News By Dave Andrusko
Here’s What a 24-Week Baby Looks Like: Massachusetts Just Legalized Killing Them Before Birth
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS–Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, put it more bluntly: it “legalized elective abortion up to birth on healthy moms and healthy, pain-capable infants.”
She said of the so-called “Prioritizing Patients’ Access to Care Act,” that “Passive indifference to inhumane late-term abortion is to look the other way, a choice for complacency instead of a determination to advance human rights. History shows what that indifference means for people who society classifies as less than human and not worthy of our protection under the law.
”Flynn concluded, “Unfortunately for the women of Massachusetts and their unborn babies, history repeats itself.”
With malice aforethought, H.5595 removes all of the state’s current [and nominal) restrictions on abortion after 24 weeks. Henceforth abortions up until birth may be done based upon “the professional judgment of the physician” performing it.
Just this past Saturday, local radio host Barry Richard wrote: Governor Maura Healey said she will sign legislation into law that vastly expands access to abortion. H.5595, the Prioritizing Patients’ Access to Care Act, passed the House on July 22, 2026, and the Senate by the deadline on July 31, 2026.
“Lord, let moms, pro-lifers, Christians rise up in Massachusetts and confront Gov. Maura Healey and the State Legislature and remove this legislation that legalizes killing babies from 24 weeks to birth.”
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(Editor’s Note: To see original link to Aug. 11 article on LifeNews.com go to: https://www.lifenews.com/2026/08/11/heres-what-a-24-week-baby-looks-like-massachusetts-just-legalized-killing-them-before-birth/. Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.)
Mike Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com and “Prayer Over News Daily” and other columns. Mr. Hernandez mentors citizen journalists and can be contacted at MikeHernandezMedia.com dedicated to advancing truth, service, and hope through Mission News Service. He is also founder/publisher/editor of https://calirednews.com/.)