The University of Massachusetts-Amherst recently announced its campus health center, University Health Services, received an $80,000 grant from the state to improve student access to abortion.
The grant is a project from the Massachusetts Department Public Health and its “Abortion Project,” according to a story by Campus Reform.
Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, tells AFN she wasn’t surprised to learn the “Abortion Project” is affiliated with college campuses.
“The state government has decided that they are going to promote abortion as much as possible as widely as possible,” she advises. "So this is just one more aspect of it."
The main person behind the abortion push is Gov. Maura Healey, Campus Reform reports. A vocal supporter of abortion, the first-term governor created an “abortion toolkit” for universities in 2023 with help from the Boston-based Reproductive Equity Now Foundation.
Tobias, who follows state abortion laws, tells AFN a Massachusetts law mandates abortion services on university campuses. The purpose behind that law, she says, is so pregnant women don’t have to travel far to abortion their unborn child.
More recently, the Massachusetts legislature budgeted $1 million for a public relations campaign to criticize and disparage pro-life pregnancy centers.
Tobias says she often wonders what is behind the abortion obsession, such as viewing an aborted baby as a “cost-saving measure” for women and for state government.
“Or is it a depraved mentality that says 'we're gonna kill as many babies as possible'? Maybe it's a reaction, you know, ‘we're not gonna let pro-lifers and conservatives tell us what to do.’”
