By Douglas V. Gibbs
Let me be blunt. What we witnessed in Massachusetts isn’t just politics anymore. We saw a celebration of death that can’t be anything other than downright evil. Democratic Governor Maura Healey signed away Massachusetts’ gestational limits on abortion, making it the 10th state to permit the procedure up to birth. But it wasn’t the signing that was most chilling, however. It was the reaction of those gathered to witness this historic moment.
As Healey put pen to paper on what they deceptively call the “Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act,” the room erupted in applause and smiles. Liberal women packed the room and gleefully cheered as she effectively legalized the termination of healthy, pain-capable unborn children right up until the moment of birth. These weren’t solemn faces confronting a rare medical emergency – they were beaming, laughing, and celebrating as if they’d just won the lottery.
This represents everything our Founding Fathers feared. The Constitution was established to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” – not to authorize the destruction of that posterity. Life, liberty and property. When the Declaration of Independence proclaims that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” with “Life” listed first among them, it wasn’t suggesting these rights apply only after exiting the birth canal.
“Governments, in general, have been the result of force, of fraud, and accident. After a period of six thousand years has elapsed since the creation, the United States exhibit to the world the first instance, as far as we can learn, of a nation, unattacked by external force, unconvulsed by domestic insurrections, assembling voluntarily, deliberating fully, and deciding calmly concerning that system of government under which they would wish that they and their prosperity should live.” – James Wilson, November 26, 1787 in remarks in Pennsylvania ratifying convention.
“With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger.” – James Wilson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, and defender of the Constitution at the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention.
Jeremiah 1:5, KJV … Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Psalm 139:13-14, KJV … 13For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
This law in Massachusetts allows abortions at any point in pregnancy based solely on the “professional judgment of the physician” – a loophole so wide you could drive a hearse through it. The previous law already permitted abortions after 24 weeks to preserve the life or health of the mother or in cases of severe fetal diagnosis. But that wasn’t enough for the radical left – they demanded the right to terminate healthy babies of healthy mothers right up until birth – an eventuality those on the pro-life side have been telling everyone all along was someday coming if we didn’t stop the barbaric practice of abortion.
As believers, we cannot ignore the spiritual dimensions here. The Bible warns us in Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Watching these women celebrate the legalized killing of unborn children brings this verse to life in horrifying clarity.
This isn’t healthcare as they try to argue – it’s child sacrifice dressed in medical scrubs. The ancient Canaanites threw their children into fires to appease false gods. Today, we dismember them in the womb to appease the god of convenience. The method may have changed, but the evil remains the same.
Remember when pro-abortion advocates told us they just wanted abortion to be “safe, legal and rare”? Those days are long gone. The Democratic Party has moved far beyond that reasonable-sounding position. Now they hold signing ceremonies, pose for photographs and applaud as abortion protections are expanded deeper into pregnancy.
Massachusetts now joins Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., as jurisdictions with no statutory gestational limit. Ten states where a full-term baby can be terminated for any reason. Ten states where the most vulnerable among us have no legal protection whatsoever.
What we’re witnessing is the logical endpoint of a movement that treats abortion as both medical necessity and political sacrament. The cheers at the State House, the smiling faces, the applause – all point in the same direction: a culture that has decided some human lives are disposable right up to the moment of birth.
Late-term abortions often involve a gruesome process where the baby is fatally poisoned in the womb and then delivered dead. They can also involve an abortionist crushing and dismembering a baby before its delivery, pulling the baby out piece by piece. This isn’t a medical procedure – it’s barbarism. And to celebrate it? To cheer it? To applaud it? That’s something else entirely.
As conservatives, as Christians, as constitutionalists, we cannot remain silent in the face of such evil. The Rule of Law is grounded in natural law and the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God – not in the whims of politicians or the applause of crowds. When our government legalizes the killing of the most vulnerable, it has abandoned its most fundamental purpose: to preserve life.
Governor Healey and those cheering her on will one day stand before a Holy God. I don’t think they’ll be cheering then. But until that day comes, it falls to us – those who still believe in the sanctity of life and defend the defenseless. Those of us willing and able to call evil by its proper name.
What happened in Massachusetts wasn’t just a political victory for the pro-abortion movement. It was a spiritual battle lost, a line crossed that should never have been approached. The demons were indeed clapping in the background. And America – if we don’t turn back soon – will reap what we’ve sown.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
