{"id":205012,"date":"2019-06-22T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205012"},"modified":"2019-06-21T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T03:24:00","slug":"clash-extreme-massachusetts-abortion-survivors-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/clash-extreme-massachusetts-abortion-survivors-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts citizens clash over extreme bill that removes abortion survivor protections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the State House in Boston heard testimony on Monday about whether abortion should be expanded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pro-lifers and abortion supporters gathered by the hundreds outside.<\/p>\n

An Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access<\/a>, nicknamed the ROE Act, is being pushed by NARAL Massachusetts, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the local advocacy chapter of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, who would profit from the law. The act would permit abortion from \u201cconception to crowning<\/a>,\u201d says Liberty Counsel, and would eliminate common-sense measures such as parental consent, waiting periods, reporting requirements, or provisions for any babies who survive abortion. As Live Action News reported yesterday<\/a>, the ROE Act allows for infanticide, removing a current state law requiring doctors to give medical aid to abortion survivors. The act also allows for abortions past 24 weeks, otherwise considered the point of viability where a baby born alive could survive with NICU support. The wording of the law allows for late-term abortion for virtually any reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pro-lifers donned red to protest the act, while abortion supporters wore pink. Many of those supporters were from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, according to<\/a> various Twitter users<\/a>. Pro-lifers\u2019 shirts declared \u201cFaith, Family, Freedom; Choose Life.\u201d They held signs such as \u201cA pregnant woman needs support, not abortion,\u201d as Pentecostal minister and pro-life activist Eugene Rivers addressed the crowd. \u201cThe bottom line is we oppose this because it is war against the most defenseless,\u201d said Rivers, according to WCVB<\/a>.\u00a0“We are pro-life from the womb to the tomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

MassGOP chairman Jim Lyons was present at the protest, having released a statement earlier in the day. The statement read, in part: “The Infanticide Act shreds the last vestige of family connection, as it mandates that our youngest teenagers can access abortion without ever consulting family or parents. Clearly, this extreme measure constitutes an all-out assault on both life and family.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Massachusetts ROE Act supporters admit the bill would allow infanticide<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the organizers of the rally, Chanel Prunier, spoke out against allowing dangerous late-term abortions outside of a hospital setting. “There’s no good reason to take them out of a hospital except Planned Parenthood’s bottom line,” Prunier said, according to WBUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n