Abortion

Among their priorities are enhancing patient data privacy and strengthening protections for out-of-state providers, particularly those treating patients via telehealth.

Connecticut is launching an online and billboard campaign to promote its free abortion legal hotline.

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood decision could limit health care access for Connecticut women, advocates said Thursday, as it opens the door for Congress, now considering the federal budget, to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and abortion rights advocates marked the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision by highlighting the state’s efforts to strengthen abortion rights at the State Capitol in Hartford on Tuesday.

Three years after Dobbs, CT Democrats warn a federal budget bill could cut Medicaid funding for reproductive health providers like Planned Parenthood, threatening care for thousands of patients.

Following the reelection of Donald Trump, Connecticut has partnered with top lawyers on a hotline to give abortion providers and patients free, confidential legal advice.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D), U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, Attorney General William Tong and Comptroller Sean Scanlon spoke about former President Donald Trump’s reelection for nearly an hour on Wednesday morning.

Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro has called out the platform adopted by the Republican Party at their convention that changes the party’s position on abortion. DeLauro addressed the issue at a media briefing on Tuesday at a New Haven location of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion services provider in the state.

Connecticut has had about a 150% increase in the number of out-of-state women seeking abortion services since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to abortion providers.