Legislation to Watch
The Connecticut General Assembly is currently out of session. Take a look at the legislation we worked on during the 2008 Session. |
| Pro-Choice Legislation: |
| An Act Concerning Healthy Teens |
| Bill Number: |
5591 [ view bill ] |
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| Sponsor(s): |
Education Committee |
An Act Concerning Healthy Teens will offer incentive grants, to be distributed though regional Boards of Education, to provide comprehensive, medically accurate, and age-appropriate sex education to students and trainings for parents and teachers. Comprehensive sex education includes teaching students abstinence education.
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| Anti-Choice Legislation: |
| An Act Concerning the Required Age for Counseling |
| Bill Number: |
5499 [ view bill ] |
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| Sponsor(s): |
Select Committee on Children |
Connecticut’s current statute in regards to counseling outlines specific information that reproductive healthcare practitioners must share with a woman, under the age of 16, seeking an abortion (19a-601). This statute works in concert with many other laws enacted by the legislature including: · laws protecting a teen’s right to testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (19a-216), · HIV testing and treatment (19a-582), · substance abuse counseling (17a-688), · outpatient mental health counseling (19a-14c), · and the age of consent. HB 5499 seeks to change the statutory age for counseling of young women prior to an abortion to age 18. This change is said to reflect recent changes to the criminal justice statutes that now recognize juveniles as those under the age of 18. If Connecticut lawmakers wish to adjust all statutory language to reflect recent changes in “Raise the Age” legislation, then they should do so across the board, not to one statute in regards to abortion.
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