Life is a gift from God. As a grandfather, some of my fondest memories recently come from time spent with my grandchildren. But there are some in society who seem to be gleeful about killing babies up to the moment of birth, through abortion.
A couple of weeks ago, the governor of Massachusetts signed the most radical abortion bill imaginable: allowing the killing of babies in the womb, no matter what time of gestation.
In his End of Day report (Aug. 20, 2026), Gary Bauer describes the signing ceremony this way: “There was a big celebration in the office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently. Over a dozen very happy ladies surrounded her desk at a bill-signing ceremony. Sadly, they were celebrating the deaths of innocent babies.”
There wasn’t even a hint that there might be anything wrong with what Healey was signing into law. Irony of ironies. The governor’s action does not jibe well with the official governing document of her state.
One of the oldest constitutions in the world still operating is that of Massachusetts, dating back to 1780, seven years before our national constitution was written. Theoretically, legislation from that state should comport at least with the spirit of that document.
John Adams was the chief author of the Bay State’s governing document, which includes these words: “It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an equitable mode of making laws, as well as for an impartial interpretation, and a faithful execution of them; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them.”
“Security”? – except for those who are unborn.
The man who would be our second president continues: “We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other.”
So, with God’s help, the people of this state are engaging in a “solemn compact” together. No “violence” – except for ripping out the unwanted baby in the womb?
Article I says: “All men are born free and equal.” But to Healey and company, they have to be born in the first place. The unborn or preborn seem to have zero rights there now.
Article II states: “It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe … in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience.”
Conscience rights and our duties to God are important here in this state. Well, not really these days, with this barbaric new law allowing abortion up to the moment of birth.
The Adams document goes on to say how, under God, the citizens are endowed to be their own rulers.
Article VII notes, “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.”
The good? The protection? The safety? The prosperity and happiness? Only those born need apply.
Article XI observes, “the public worship of God and instructions in piety, religion and morality, promote the happiness and prosperity of a people.”
The founders of America, including John Adams, saw the link between religion (which usually meant Christianity in one version or another) and morality. But our modern pro-abortion forces don’t seem to be guided by any sense of Judeo-Christian morality.
Why all these quotes from the Massachusetts Constitution? Because, theoretically, its principles should have something to do with the legislation signed into law. But apparently not these days.
The ancient Hebrew prophet Isaiah declared, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Those 2,700-year-old words still apply. Surely, those Massachusetts women are calling abortion good, not bad.
Meanwhile, some of the most vociferous voices against abortion come from those who used to be promoters of it. That includes the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a pioneer of the pro-abortion movement. But he came to have a change of heart when he realized the humanity of the unborn.
A co-founder of NARAL, he became aghast at the immorality he helped unleash – and that was already 40 years ago (with tens of millions of abortions in America since). In his book, “The Abortion Papers” (1983), Nathanson wrote, “I believe that an America which permits a junta of moral thugs to foist an evil of incalculable dimensions upon it, and continues to permit that evil to flower, creates for itself a deadly legacy: a millennium of shame.”
That shame continues in the recent “celebration” in the Massachusetts governor’s office.
