Healey takes emergency action to implement new Mass. abortion lawGBH News reports that Governor Maura Healey signed an emergency order putting Massachusetts's new abortion law into effect immediately, after opponents gathered more than 100,000 signatures to freeze its implementation and force a 2028 repeal vote. The law lets anyone in Massachusetts get an abortion at any point in pregnancy with a doctor's signoff, drawing celebration from reproductive rights advocates and condemnation from Compassionate Care Coalition chair Sam Miele.