Planned Parenthood

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is suing the Trump administration for attempting to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Monday in Boston federal court against the Trump administration, calling a provision in the recently signed budget bill unconstitutional and warning it will effectively defund the organization.

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.

HHS said they’re pausing the funding, which comes from Title X, while they review possible violations of civil rights laws and an executive order from President Trump that bars undocumented immigrants from getting taxpayer-funded benefits.

Medical Director Dr. Ayiti Maharaj-Best was happy to tell the state’s health department that the uptick in STIs was a good thing—and it was thanks to their new express testing method.

More women are coming into Connecticut for abortion care, and the state is training more medical professionals to meet that demand.

WSHU’s Desiree Diorio spoke with Gloria Feldt, the former president of Planned Parenthood, about the future of abortion rights with the midterm elections just two months away.

Now that Connecticut allows advanced practice clinicians to perform aspiration abortions, some nurses have begun learning the procedure.