Catholic Bishops Challenge Governor’s Faith-Based Defense of Late-Term Abortion Law

Faith Facts

• The Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts have publicly rebuked Governor Maura Healey for invoking her Catholic faith to defend a law allowing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
• The bishops stated that no Catholic teaching supports the intentional killing of unborn children at any stage of development.
• The governor’s actions have drawn sharp criticism from Church leaders who uphold the sanctity of life as a core moral teaching.

The Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts recently rebuked the commonwealth’s Democratic Gov. Maura Healey for attempting to use her Catholic faith to justify a law she signed that permits abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

The prelates expressed grave concern that the governor’s public statements misrepresented Catholic doctrine while advancing what they described as a radically permissive abortion policy. They emphasized that the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life begins at conception and cannot be reconciled with laws that permit the destruction of unborn children at any stage.

The bishops made clear that Catholic teaching does not allow for personal interpretations that contradict the moral law handed down through Scripture and tradition. They urged the faithful to reject any attempt to use faith language to advance policies that directly violate the commandment to protect innocent life.

“We cannot remain silent when the gift of life is treated as expendable,” the bishops declared in their statement.

“The Catholic faith does not permit us to support laws that allow the killing of children in the womb, regardless of the stage of pregnancy,” they added.

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