Back in April, Connecticut's House of Representatives gathered to debate and vote on a whole bunch of legislation.

There was a bill about service animals, a bill establishing a supermarket food donation program.

And then there was the bill about abortion.

And with that, the clerk please call House Calendar 383.

A young representative named Matt Blumenthal got up to talk about it.

Representative Blumenthal.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For almost 50 years, the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade

has protected an individual's fundamental right to decide whether and when to be pregnant.

The Bill Blumenthal described was unlike anything I'd ever heard before.

It looked ahead to what the world might look like if Roe v. Wade gets overturned by the Supreme Court.

It imagines women suddenly traveling great distances for abortion care.

And it takes seriously the idea that states like Texas might suddenly find themselves at odds with

states like Connecticut.

Other states around the country have started to pass laws

deputizing private citizens as essentially vigilante bounty hunters

to sue any person or organization,

physician, nurse, clinic, friend, even the Uber driver

who assists an individual in obtaining an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

People have been calling this bill a safe haven law for abortion.

Of all the places where abortion access is under fire, Connecticut, I don't put it up there.

Like, the right to abortion in Connecticut has been enshrined in state law for over three decades. You're right. Here in Connecticut,

we have taken measures to protect the right to legal, safe abortion. However, we're still under

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