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Massachusetts governor signs executive order to safeguard emergency abortion care and broaden protections
Summary
Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order reaffirming that hospitals must provide emergency life‑saving care — including abortion — and directing state agencies to enforce insurer and provider obligations; the administration also highlighted funding, medication stockpiles and a public education campaign.
BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order on the two‑year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision reaffirming that Massachusetts will ensure access to emergency life‑saving health care, including abortion, and directing state agencies to make explicit insurers’ and providers’ obligations.
"It was a really bad decision. It was a really dark day for America," Healey said at a State House event marking the anniversary. "We will protect it. We will defend it." The order, she said, is part of a "whole of government" approach to preserve reproductive freedom in Massachusetts.
The executive order lists three core points: that people in Massachusetts will have access to emergency life‑saving health care including abortion; that the Department of Public Health and the Division of Insurance will clarify through regulation and guidance insurers’ and providers’ obligations to provide emergency abortion care; and that the state will continue to ensure protections for reproductive freedom and choice.
Dr. Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, reaffirmed…
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