Connecticut
Capitol Report: Connecticut House passes abortion rights bill
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Connecticut lawmakers superior laws final week that abortion rights advocates say is required to guard in-state medical suppliers from authorized motion, in addition to sufferers who journey to Connecticut to terminate a being pregnant and those that assist them. It comes amid new abortion restrictions being enacted in a rising variety of conservative states.
There was a passionate debate on each side of the problem. State Rep. Aimee Berger-Girvalo, D-Ridgefield, shared her very private expertise about getting an abortion when she was simply 18.
Probably the most attention-grabbing and persuasive argument in opposition to the abortion invoice really got here from State Rep. Trenee McGee, D-West Haven.
McGee argued that increasing abortion entry wouldn’t present any profit to girls of colour, citing statistics that present girls of colour have already got a disproportionate variety of abortions in comparison with the remainder of the childbearing inhabitants.
Amongst different issues, Connecticut’s invoice would stop state and native businesses from cooperating in investigations and prosecutions of abortion suppliers within the state, modify the state’s extradition statutes and forestall an out-of-state affected person’s medical data from being disclosed.
The invoice would additionally enable a complicated observe registered nurse, nurse-midwife, or doctor assistant to carry out the most typical kind of in-clinic abortion, often known as an aspiration abortion. The process is at the moment restricted to physicians.
The invoice cleared the Home of Representatives by a bipartisan vote of 87-60. It now awaits motion within the Senate. Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont stated he would signal the laws into legislation if it clears the Democratic-controlled Basic Meeting.
This week on Capitol Report, former Connecticut Speaker of the Home Joe Aresimowicz (D) and former Senate Minority Chief John McKinney (R) talk about the invoice that’s thought of by some advocates to be one of the vital consequential abortion-related proposals to return up for a vote within the Basic Meeting since 1990.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
Two Oregon men were found dead in a Washington state forest after they failed to return from a trip to look for Sasquatch, authorities said Saturday.
The 59-year-old and 37-year-old appear to have died from exposure, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said via Facebook. The weather and the men’s lack of preparedness led the office to draw that conclusion, it said.
Sasquatch is a folkloric beast thought by some to roam the forests, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
The two men were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Portland.
A family member reported them missing at around 1 a.m. on Christmas Day after they failed to return from a Christmas Eve outing.
Sixty volunteer search-and-rescue personnel helped in the three-day search, including canine, drone and ground teams. The Coast Guard used infrared technology to search from the air.
Authorities used camera recordings to locate the vehicle used by the pair off Oklahoma Road near Willard, which is on the southern border of the national forest.
A vehicle was reportedly in the water at a country club in Glastonbury on Saturday.
Police said it was reported at Glastonbury Hills Country Club.
It’s unclear if anyone was injured.
Authorities did not release any additional details, but said the investigation was ongoing.
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