Thank You to the Nine

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Saturday, August 15, 2026

An Excerpt from Thank You to the Nine on Townhall.com

I’ve always argued that life is the more bipartisan belief. Most days, the noise coming out of statehouses and cable news makes that argument hard to prove. This week, of all places, Massachusetts proved it.

Gov. Maura Healey signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act this week, a bill that passed the state House 119-33 and eliminates statutory gestational limits on abortion, leaving the decision to a physician’s “professional medical judgment” at any point in a pregnancy, with expanded legal protection built in.

Healey framed it as compassion, insisting families facing late complications shouldn’t have to leave the state to get care. State Rep. Jeffrey Turco of Winthrop framed it rather differently, and more accurately: “It allows abortion anytime, unrestricted, and in many cases, publicly funded until the moment of birth.” He didn’t stop there.

“This new law represents an extremist and dangerous position,” he told Fox News Digital. “This law is barbaric.” Read that twice.

That’s not a Republican talking point. That’s a Democrat, representing a Democratic district, in one of the bluest legislatures in America, using the word barbaric to describe his own party’s bill.

He wasn’t alone.

Nine House Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against this thing alongside every Republican in the chamber. State Rep. Chris Markey of Dartmouth called it “a very slippery slope” that puts doctors in an impossible ethical position and said plainly that you can be pro-choice and still see this law as “going beyond the norms of acceptability.”

State Rep. Alan Silvia of Bristol pointed out an irony too sharp to ignore: “We go to extraordinary lengths as a society to protect vulnerable life, saving whales and saving strays, yet when it comes to an unborn child, that same sense of protection too often seems to disappear.”

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