Massachusetts Health Department wants primary care to include abortion

The state of Massachusetts is recommending that abortion be included as part of primary care, with the express goal of making it easier to access.

Key Takeaways:

• The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and its commissioner, Dr. Robert Goldstein, have issued a report calling for abortion to be included as part of primary care within the state.

• The report asserts that doing so would reduce "stigma," shorten wait times, and make abortion easier to access.

• Abortion is not only legal in Massachusetts, but heavily protected and widely accessible.

The Details:

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has released a new report with the approval of Commissioner Robert Goldstein, calling for abortion to be integrated into primary care.

"Abortion care, particularly medication abortion and early procedural abortion, is a common medical practice that can and should be integrated into primary care," the report said. "However, abortion care is often siloed away from primary care services, stigmatizing abortion and decreasing its availability."

Though the report acknowledged Massachusetts has no so-called "abortion deserts," or areas without an abortion facility within a 50-mile radius, the department still claims there are "significant areas of decreased access," particularly regarding surgical abortions and late-term abortions committed after 21 weeks — a point at which babies born prematurely have survived when given active care.

"For each of these categories, most of Cape Cod and the Islands and parts of Western and Northern Massachusetts remain 25-50+ miles away from care," the report said, meaning that Massachusetts even wants to see violent, late-term abortions included as part of primary care.

Meanwhile, actual primary care continues to be in crisis in Massachusetts, with Senate President Karen Spilka admitting that Massachusetts residents are waiting weeks, if not months, to get appointments with primary care providers.

Zoom In:

Massachusetts is already an extremely pro-abortion state, and as the report pointed out, there are no abortion deserts anywhere within it. Hospitals are already allowed to commit so-called "emergency" abortions, and the state has a shield law in place to protect law-breaking abortionists from any potential consequences of sending abortion pills into states where it is illegal.

But, more importantly, abortion is intentional killing; it is not health care, and should not be labeled as such.

There has been no shortage of horror stories shared by the abortion industry and its advocates since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, largely designed to manipulate and scare Americans into believing that induced abortion is a legitimate and necessary form of health care.

For complications such as incompetent cervix, pre-eclampsia, a missed miscarriage, or other urgent medical problems, abortion is said to be the life-saving answer. In reality, induced abortion is not the standard of care for pregnancy-related complications.

Abortionists themselves have admitted that abortion is not health care, and is not medically necessary. Abortionist Don Sloan stated:

"If a woman with a serious illness – heart disease, say, or diabetes – gets pregnant, the abortion procedure may be as dangerous for her as going through pregnancy … with diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, even breast cancer, the chance that pregnancy will make the disease worse is no greater that the chance that the disease will either stay the same or improve.

And medical technology has advanced to a point where even women with diabetes and kidney disease can be seen through a pregnancy safely by a doctor who knows what he’s doing. We’ve come a long way since my mother’s time….

The idea of abortion to save the mothers’ life is something that people cling to because it sounds noble and pure – but medically speaking, it probably doesn’t exist. It’s a real stretch of our thinking."

The Bottom Line:

There is no need for Massachusetts to further promote abortion by making it part of primary care, yet the pro-abortion health department is doing just that, even as the state's residents struggle to access real health care.