Help Stop the Abortion Expansion Bills!

The MA legislature is considering the following abortion expansion bills, which would eliminate nearly all restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts:

H.1815, An Act enhancing access to abortion
S. 1244, An Act enhancing access to abortion care
H.1991, An Act relative to abortion care for young people
S.1579, An Act to eliminate barriers and expand abortion access
H.2370/S.1563, An Act prioritizing patient access to care

This bevy of new bills, pushed by radical pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, seeks to remove virtually all remaining protections in Massachusetts for unborn babies and their mothers.

Under this legislation, safety regulations for dangerous late-term abortions would be removed, as well as all remaining restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks, for any reason, or no reason at all. 

If passed these bills would undermine parental rights by allowing girls of ANY age to get an abortion without parental knowledge, would eliminate the judicial bypass that grants a judge the authority to allow a girl under age 16 to obtain an abortion without parental consent, and would prohibit school-based health centers from telling parents about any abortion services provided to their daughter. The legal age to consent to sex in Massachusetts is 16, meaning that many girls who obtain abortions under this age will be victims of statutory rape. Yet, these bills would remove all protections for them.

This legislation would also allow minors to consent to vaccines, including the COVID-19, HPV, and other vaccines, or other treatments without parental knowledge or permission.

Shockingly, these bills would also do away with the conscientious objection exemption to performing some abortions. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals would be forced to perform abortions against their sincerely held religious or conscientious objections.

Further, these harmful bills would put unfair restrictions on pregnancy resource centers that provide help to women in need and would also authorize the Department of Public Health to use taxpayer funds to promote abortion clinics and smear pregnancy resource centers.

Contact your legislators and ask them to oppose these dangerous Abortion Expansion bills that would put women, especially young women, at risk, trample parental rights, deny medical professionals their right to act according to their conscience, violate the free speech of pregnancy resource centers, and eliminate any restrictions on abortion.  

Click the Take Action link below for a phone or email script. The phone numbers of your legislators are listed on the Take Action page. If using the call option, please record the result, and then click Save Call Data. Or you can choose the email option with our talking points to email your legislators. 

Remember to insert the last names of your elected officials in the greeting of the email!