OPINION:
Massachusetts law now enshrines a right to abortion and lowers from 18 to 16 the age at which patients may undergo abortions without parental consent (“Massachusetts expands late-term abortion access with override of Charlie Baker’s veto,” Web, Dec. 29). The law now allows abortions after 24 weeks gestation in cases of fatal fetal abnormalities, and to “preserve the patient’s physical or mental health.”
Since this is now a “right,” can teens get the state to pay for it? The mental-health rationale will basically give a women a right to abort at nine months.
What baffles me is that the “pro-choice” crowd is usually the same people who are against capital punishment, even in cases where multiple people were murdered. A 16-year-old can decide to kill innocent, unborn child on a whim, but a jury of 12 peers, a judge and numerous appeals upholding a murder conviction and death sentence are inhumane and unjust?
Any Roman Catholic legislator who voted for this law should be excommunicated from the church.
COMM. WAYNE L. JOHNSON
Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (retired)
Alexandria, Va.
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