HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's first major abortion-related legislation in years, which aims to legally protect providers and patients from other states’ bans on the procedure, will take effect Friday.
The legislation was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in late April and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont in May in response to a Texas law that authorizes lawsuits against clinics, doctors and others who perform or facilitate a banned abortion, even in another state.
Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Roughly half the states are expected to prohibit or severely limit the procedure now that the high court has left it up to them.
The Connecticut Office of the Attorney General is “ready to advise agencies should the state be asked to facilitate an extradition or use state resources to aid in another state’s investigation/proceeding," said a spokesperson for Attorney General William Tong this week in an email.
Connecticut's new abortion law, which also expands the types of clinicians that can provide early term abortions, is among a handful of key state laws and tax changes that take effect Friday.
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