Thu Apr 21, 2022 – 8:18 pm EDT
HARTFORD, Connecticut (LifeSiteNews) — The Connecticut House voted 87-60 on Thursday to advance legislation allowing more non-physicians to perform abortions and shield abortionists from potential lawsuits for violating the pro-life laws of other states.
HB 5414 would establish that the governor can only extradite Connecticut residents for violating other states’ laws if those violations are also illegal in Connecticut (while placing similar limits on courts, public agencies, and health providers), allows abortionists sued by out-of-staters for violating those states’ abortion laws to counter-sue to recover certain costs, and empowers allows advanced practice registered nurses, nurse-midwives, and physician assistants to commit first-trimester aspiration abortions as well as dispense abortion-inducing drugs.
Supporters of the measure, which has been endorsed by Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont, framed it as making Connecticut into a “sanctuary” for abortion in anticipation of upcoming Supreme Court rulings that could potentially impact the judicial “right” to abortion-on-demand asserted by Roe v. Wade, by broadening the range of permissible abortion regulations or even overturning the infamous 1973 precedent and fully restoring states’ ability to set their own abortion laws.
“That right is under threat like never before,” claimed
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