David Hahn opens this week with a piece of legislation he calls truly reprehensible. On August 10th, Governor Maura Healey, herself a Roman Catholic, signed Bill H.5595 into law, stripping away Massachusetts' previous 24-week framework for abortion and replacing it with a standard that lets any abortion proceed based solely on a physician's professional judgment, performed anywhere, not just in a hospital. Hahn traces the law back through Massachusetts' own legal history, from the 1981 Moe v Secretary of Administration and Finance ruling to the fact that the state's constitutional protections for abortion predate Roe v Wade being overturned in 2022. The bishops of Massachusetts called the move gravely immoral, Bishop Robert Barron invoked the memory of a more conflicted Mario Cuomo, and a Catholic advocacy group has written to the state's bishops seeking Healey's excommunication, a move Hahn frames not as punishment but as an acknowledgement of a rupture Healey has already caused herself. Citing 2023 Gallup polling that found only 22% of Americans support legal abortion in the third trimester, even after Dobbs, Hahn argues Healey's own party has drifted further from the moderate American consensus than most of its members would admit.