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.