Massachusetts abortion law, after 24 weeks.

Before: permitted when necessary to preserve the life or physical or mental health of the mother, or for a lethal or grave fetal diagnosis incompatible with sustained life outside the uterus.

After: "an abortion may be performed when based upon the professional judgment of the physician."

The House vote was 119 to 33. 🧵

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Read that again.

The legislature did not broaden the medical exception.

It did not add a category for catastrophic fetal abnormality.

It did not create an expedited process for physicians facing an emergency.

It removed the conditions.

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And 24 weeks is not an arbitrary line.

At 24 weeks a fetus may survive outside the womb. With each additional week, survival improves substantially.

At the same gestational ages this law now permits, neonatal teams are fighting to keep premature infants alive.

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We are told these abortions are overwhelmingly tragic medical necessities.

So we tried to answer one question.

How many abortions after viability are performed because the mother's life is threatened, or because the fetus has a lethal abnormality?

The government cannot tell us.

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CDC surveillance places everything from 21 weeks onward into a single bucket.

22 weeks or 32 weeks? Not reported.

Why the abortion was performed? Not reported.

The most recent data show 1.1 percent of abortions at 21 weeks or later. That number tells you almost nothing.

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The research that does exist is uncomfortable.

Kimport, 2022, peer reviewed. Interviews with 28 women who obtained abortions between 24 and 35 weeks.

Two pathways emerged. New information, sometimes a fetal diagnosis and sometimes late discovery of the pregnancy. And barriers: cost, finding a provider, stigma.

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Colorado shows what happens with no gestational limit.

137 abortions reported at 28 weeks or later in 2023.

Clinics there advertise abortion well into the third trimester, and state plainly that no reason need be given.

How many involved a healthy mother and a healthy fetus? Colorado does not report it.

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Nine states plus Washington, D.C. have no statutory gestational limit.

Alaska. Colorado. Maryland. Michigan. Minnesota. New Jersey. New Mexico. Oregon. Vermont.

Massachusetts now effectively joins them.

Over 54 million Americans live under these laws.

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Here is what legislators should have answered before removing the boundary.

If abortions after 24 weeks are overwhelmingly performed for catastrophic fetal abnormality or genuine threat to maternal health, collect the data and demonstrate it.

If they are not, the public deserves to know that too.

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Instead the Senate passed it without a recorded roll call.

And then the photographs.

Politicians and advocates gathered around Governor Healey. Smiling. Applauding. Posing for the commemorative photograph.

That is the part I cannot get past.

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People disagree about abortion. They disagree about bodily autonomy, fetal rights, and where the law should draw a line.

But human development does not stop because the subject makes us uncomfortable.

A civilized society can conclude that a terrible thing has happened.

This one applauded.

Full investigation:
https://www.malone.news/p/late-term-pregnancy-killings-legal

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It seems like these women - the governor, and politicians in Massachusetts who have advocated for the bill to legalizing killing babies up until 40 weeks - should go visit the NICU - and meet a premie... A conscious being who could have been killed in an "abortion" - at the same age as their birth.
Maybe a mind could be changed?

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This is such an important point - and our book Homesteading for Health lays this out in fine detail.

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Defies logic.

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We were told that marrying young is a recipe for divorce.
Jill and I married at 18 and 19. Almost five decades later, we started looking at the actual research.
It turns out age may not be the most important variable at all.
Divorce runs in families. So does the age at which people marry. Children of divorce are more likely to marry other children of divorce, compounding the risk. Families appear to transmit not just whether we marry, but what we believe marriage is, how permanent we expect it to be, and when walking away becomes acceptable.
Maybe the real question isn't, “Are you too young to marry?”
Maybe it is: “Did you choose someone who was taught the same meaning of marriage that you were?”

https://www.malone.news/p/early-love-and-marriage

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Professor Paul Offit is a narcissistic academic bully, very similar to Dr. Anthony Fauci. I have encountered many of these during my career, and more recently even in the "medical freedom" community. Prove me wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz1ln5AJ5Q&t=2641s

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Rumor has it that Dr. Heidi Overton, formerly West Wing, has been nominated to Commissioner of the FDA. Her academic mentor at Johns Hopkins was Surgeon and former FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary @MartyMakary.

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Former CDC advisor says decline in kindergarten vaccinations nothing to worry about: 'Keep calm and carry on'
The former ACIP vice chair told Fox News Digital that US compliance with the childhood vaccine schedule remains strong
By Robert McGreevy Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-cdc-advisor-says-decline-kindergarten-vaccinations-nothing-worry-about-keep-calm-carry-on

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We were vegetarians for more than 30 years.
We thought we ate well.
By 2022, we were both technically obese and in poor metabolic health.
So we did something unfashionable: we changed our minds.
We ate meat. Prioritized protein. Cut processed carbohydrates, seed oils, added sugars and ultra-processed food. We began eating eggs from our chickens, meat raised on grass, raw milk, vegetables from our garden and grains we milled ourselves.
We each lost 50 pounds. Years later, the weight is still gone. So are several chronic problems we had begun to accept as “aging.”
Maybe the first intervention in your health isn't another prescription.
Maybe it is dinner.
The essay today is from our new book, Homesteading for Health:
"The First Intervention: Eat Differently"

https://www.malone.news/p/the-first-intervention-eat-differently

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The Measles Booster Problem
Vaccine immunity fades, and another dose does not restore it.

https://www.malone.news/p/the-measles-booster-problem


If you are between sixty and seventy, you finished this essay with a question to ask at your next appointment that almost nobody is asking. Tracing a forgotten 1967 recommendation through sixty years of primary literature is what this publication does, and reader subscriptions are what pay for it. Free subscribers receive every post. Paid subscribers fund the research behind them.

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Moderna added $44 billion in market value in one trading day on the melanoma announcement.

The press release contains no hazard ratio, no confidence interval, and no patient counts.

I went looking for what it left out.

https://www.malone.news/p/melanoma-forty-four-billion-dollars

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My grandchildren eat frozen blueberries straight from the bag. So I read the FDA's Class I recall carefully.

Freezing is not a kill step. It never was. Fewer than a hundred organisms of this strain can put a child on dialysis, and they survive a freezer for months.

Here is what I told my own family, and the step in the supply chain nobody is watching.

(Disclosure: I am CMO of Curativa Bay.)

https://curativabay.substack.com/p/frozen-is-not-sterile

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Ground News promises to break the media echo chamber.
But we found something remarkable hiding inside its “Factuality” ratings.
Conservative news outlets scored nearly 5 points lower in reliability than comparable outlets on the Left, even though they were no more ideologically extreme.
Then Ground News takes those publication-wide ratings and puts them beside individual stories, even though it admits the articles themselves have not been fact-checked.
The conservative story finally gets onto the page.
It just arrives pre-labeled as less trustworthy.
The Factuality Laundromat: How Ground News Turns Media Bias Into “Fact”

https://www.malone.news/p/ground-news-and-the-factuality-scam

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Jill picked the memes. I picked the title.
Neither of us are apologizing to Senator Blumenthal.

Sunday Strip:
https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-flock-you

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FDA REFUSED Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine because the company hadn’t tested it against the vaccines seniors actually receive.
Moderna called for White House intervention.
Trump intervened.
14 days later, FDA reversed itself.
The missing trial was never done.
Instead, FDA approved the vaccine for seniors and moved the experiment to after licensure, when up to 800,000 people will determine whether it actually provides greater clinical protection.
Meanwhile:
• ~137 people must switch vaccines to prevent one additional case of flu.
• For every 22 who switch, one additional person has a reaction severe enough to stop normal daily activity.
• FDA found 29 unexplained/sudden/sudden-cardiac deaths vs. 12 in controls. No autopsies were performed on the mFLUSIVA deaths.
• The FDA advisory panel voted 9–0. Twice.
• For seniors, FDA approved on antibodies, not demonstrated superiority in illness, hospitalization or death over the enhanced vaccines they already receive.
And this license can help lower the evidentiary burden for Moderna’s next mRNA vaccine.
This isn't just a story about a flu shot.
It is a story about what “FDA approved” now means.
Read the investigation:

https://www.malone.news/p/modernas-mrna-flu-shot

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Vaccine Miscarriage Risk: Another ‘Serious Scandal’ for Dr. Fauci

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/vaccine_miscarriage_risk_another_serious_scandal_for_dr_fauci

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