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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 vs. 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 vs. 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 in trying to state law for over three decades.

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