The 2009 Connecticut legislative session is underway and Planned Parenthood of CT is working on key issues protecting reproductive health and rights. We need your support during this session as we advocate and promote strong policy to preserve and protect rights. Some of the issues we will be focusing on include:
- The Healthy Teens Connecticut Coalition is working to ensure that Connecticut’s youth have access to medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education providing them with the necessary skills to make safe and responsible choices surrounding their sexual health.
- Anti-discrimination legislation (HB 6542 An Act Concerning Discrimination)which would include gender identity and expression in Connecticut's non-discrimination laws. Read more
- Defend and protect reproductive rights and work to prevent obstacles or legislation that would harm access and delivery of reproductive health care and abortion. As state budget cuts are proposed, Planned Parenthood is fighting to prevent cuts to funding for family planning services.
- Advocate for a universal health care plan with the Health Care for America NOW (HCAN).
- Advocate for legislation (HB 6572 An Act Concerning Banning Bisphenol-A in Children's Products and Food Products and Prohibiting Certain Alternative Substances.) that would ban plastics containing BPA with the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut.
- Advocate for Better Choices for CT and fight to preserve essential services including the health care services we provide. We support the "Better Choices" budget plan to reform the state tax system and raise the revenue to protect crucial public structures – like schools, health care programs, roads, environmental protection agencies, and public safety organizations – from severe cuts that would undermine the state's economic recovery and quality of life.
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Healthy Teens Connecticut!
CT Legislative Session 2008 came to a close and the Healthy Teens Act was not passed. We need your help to ensure that Connecticut’s youth have access to medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education providing them with the necessary skills to make safe and responsible choices surrounding their sexual health. An Act Concerning Healthy Teens, HB 5591, was voted successfully out of the Education Committee and the Appropriations Committee but time ran out this session to pass the bill. We must continue to build our support so and work to pass this important legislation. CT youth can not wait and need information and education to make healthy decisions about sex.
During the 2009 legislative session we are continuing to stress the importance of comprehensive sex education for all CT youth to our lawmakers. With proposed budget cuts for the state we are unable to move forward with legislation to fund these programs. We need your help to build support during this year and gear up for the 2010 legislative session. Learn more about the work of the Healthy Teens CT Coalition.
Find out how your legislators voted on the Education Committee and Appropriations Committee. |
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END GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN CT!
The 2008 session has ended and An Act Concerning Discrimination, (HB 5723) did not get passed again. This bill was raised in the Judiciary Committee and would add the phrase "gender identity or expression" to all provisions in Connecticut's non-discrimination laws. This bill was voted favorably out of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate in the 2007, however the session came to end before the House could vote. Again this year the bill was voted favorably out of the Judiciary Committee and moved on to the House for a vote. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time in the session to pass it.
The Anti-Discrimination Coalition has been working tirelessly this legislative session to see this important legislation passed. The Coalition sponsored a successful educational forum and lobby day on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 to kick off their efforts this year. For more info on their work, click here.
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COMPASSIONATE CARE FOR RAPE VICTIMS IS LAW!
Thanks to the action of hundreds of CT citizens, An Act Concerning Compassionate Care for Victims of Sexual Assault (SB 1343) was signed into law by Governor Rell on May 16, 2007!
Women and girls of Connecticut are now guaranteed a compassionate and consistent standard of care at all Connecticut hospitals when seeking treatment after a sexual assault. |
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Share your outrage and disappointment about their attack against women's health care in CT!
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Read more about Compassionate Care for Rape Victims in the news.
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