Abortion wasn’t an issue of the 2026 gubernatorial race in Massachusetts… until it was.
Last week, Governor Maura Healey signed a blanket bill into law, allowing indiscriminate abortions up until birth. The previous limit on abortions in Massachusetts was 24 weeks.
The photos of Healey signing the bill show nothing less than a demonic scene. Governor Healey is flanked by women wearing Cheshire Cat grins, looking on as Maura’s pen lays down the ink to make way for babies to be murdered, with the only stipulation being that they be inside of the mother at the time of their death. Certainly nothing that deserves applause, but that’s what resounded after Healey set down her writing utensil.
All of this was under the guise of expanding a woman’s “right to choose” and “bodily autonomy,” whatever those mean. Liberals love watering down blatantly moral issues into vague sayings that fit well on posterboards.
We’re often fed the line that abortions are necessary in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is in peril due to a complicated pregnancy. Just a quick look at the statistics shows that each of those specific circumstances accounts for at or less than one percent of the given reasons for terminating an unborn child.
How long does it take to realize that you’ve been raped or had sex with a relative, anyway? Are women not able to realize that they’re carrying an unwanted child due to these circumstances within a six-month time frame? That’s what Massachusetts allowed before Maura Healey gave women more time to make up their mind about physician-assisted child murder.
The vast majority of abortions are attributed to socio-economic factors, whether they be finances, timing, interference with career objectives, or lack of a support system. So, basically, inconvenience.
It’s amazing (not really) that, instead of seeking to expand support services for expectant mothers, Massachusetts has opted to give greater leeway in the extermination of the next generation. Massachusetts. The sanctuary state. Where illegal aliens can have access to any taxpayer-based benefit program they desire. Where we’ll literally go in debt to support those who have chosen to make a life for themselves without swearing an oath to the country they chose to move to.
But to offer that same level of support to mothers in need? Nah. The Catholic Church is handling that for us, right?
And that’s where the governor’s race comes into play.
In just a few weeks, the field of two Republican candidates for Massachusetts’ top office will be narrowed to one following the September 1st primary.
One of the candidates, Brian Shortsleeve, has made the distinction between himself and the other Republican, Mike Minogue, based on his stance on abortion. Shortsleeve in May chided Minogue as an “anti-choice” candidate and propped himself up as the pro-choice choice for governor. This was before the bill Maura Healey just signed into law had even made its way out of committee.
It wasn’t an issue then. But it is now.
On his campaign website, Shortsleeve declared that he would have signed the same bill expanding the abortion timeline had it crossed his desk if he were governor.
Minogue’s release on his own website expressed disappointment in Healey’s decision and her motivation to make abortion an issue of the 2026 governor’s race.
Given the backlash from Republicans around the nation to Governor Healey’s signing of the bill this past week, it’s safe to say that conservatives, actual conservatives, are deeply saddened and disgusted by the direction Massachusetts is taking when it comes to abortion.
I’m not going to tell you who to vote for. You know where I stand. But I can tell you that I’ve already spoken with people just this week who are changing their vote from Shortsleeve to Minogue based on this one stance alone and nothing else.
Shortsleeve should have been careful what he was wishing for when he sought to distinguish himself from his opponent on such an extremely divisive topic. People feel very strongly about abortion, one way or the other. And now there is no distinction between Brian Shortsleeve and Maura Healey on that topic. The press release on his campaign website makes that clear.