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Your Help Urgently Needed for Sept. 4th Hearing in Hartford
August is typically the slowest month of the year. A time when Connecticut's pro-life and pro-family forces can rest up for the battles ahead.
Not this year. Those battles are happening right now. And while we wanted this week to be about the Stetson Awardee at our upcoming banquet, there are two big items you need to know before we can even get to it.
Family Institute of Connecticut and the Connecticut Catholic Conference have successfully pushed back against an outrageous effort to further liberalize our state's abortion laws by regulatory fiat. With very little public notice or awareness, these new regulations would have undone the victories we won through the democratic process this year, liberalizing late-term abortions and legalizing attacks on the religious liberty of pro-life health care institutions.
These regulations would even have legalized post-birth infanticide for babies that accidentally survive botched abortions.
But the battle is not over. There will now be a public hearing on the pro-abortion, pro-infanticide regulations on Wednesday, September 4th. FIC and our allies need every pro-lifer in Connecticut to make their voice heard on and around that day. Please follow the action items by clicking on the button below.
Leading the Fight for Fairness in Women's Sports
The whole country is, by now, aware of the threats to women posed by gender ideology. FIC was way out in front of this battle as the only group to fight against Connecticut's transgender law in 2011.
Less well-known is FIC's role in helping to initiate one of the most important push-backs against gender ideology in the whole nation: the lawsuit by Connecticut female athletes over the presence of biological boys in their sports. It was FIC who first connected some of the plaintiffs to our friends at ADF.
That battle returned to U.S. District Court in Hartford last week, when a seemingly chastened Judge Robert Chatigny (who had already been overruled once) seemed more willing to consider the unfairness of biological boys in girls sports. FIC was there, as we have been all along, to support the girls and women.
Read the Hartford Courant's coverage here. See NBC Connecticut's coverage here. See Eyewitness 3's coverage here. See News 8's coverage here.
FIC and our allies continue to lead this fight on the state level in Connecticut. See our website on Title 9, which is being regularly updated with new information.
And check out the video by the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference below.
Rep. Mark Anderson is FIC's 2024 Stetson Awardee
FIC's annual banquet will be Friday, September 27th at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. The Stetson Award at this year's banquet will be presented to a champion in the fight against gender ideology in our state.
Representative Mark Anderson resides in Granby with his wife Carole and her daughter Leanna. Mark met Carole at Bethany Lutheran Brethren Church in East Hartland, where she is now the secretary of the church. Together they have three daughters, two sons, and five grandchildren, all who live with their families in the area. Representative Anderson served in the Army for over thirty years in various capacities, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Feeling a calling to further public service, he earned a Masters of Arts in Public Policy from Liberty University in 2018. In 2020, when the opportunity presented itself to run for state representative, he prayerfully accepted the challenge and was elected. He is now running for his third two-year term.
Rep. Anderson was a leader in the fight for a Let Kids Be Kids bill this year, which would have stopped Connecticut's public schools from secretly transing kids from one gender identity to another without parental knowledge or approval.
Anderson helped organize and lead the press conference on the bill, which brought down on him and his colleagues howls of outrage from the Connecticut State Treasurer, powerful state legislators with connections to national media, and others.
Rep. Anderson and his colleagues stood their ground.
Please join us at the FIC Banquet on Sept. 27th to honor Rep. Mark Anderson, to hear a powerful message for the churches from keynote speaker Eric Metaxas, and to celebrate FIC's 35th anniversary of existence.
