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"It's been a couple days and we've all had a chance to think hard about what happened, and where we are as a state and a country, and the risks and the threats ahead," said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong at a press conference this morning where a new state-supported hotline for abortion was announced.
Tong, who is very pro-abortion, painted a terrifying image of women dying in Texas hospital parking lots because they couldn't get "abortion care" like a "D&C" when they are having a miscarriage.
No states prohibit life-saving care in the event of a miscarriage, but that fact seems unimportant to Tong.
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Tong says he's in the fight to "protect abortion care" because of his children.
"They're just starting their lives, they have everything in front of them, and I just want it all to be open to them, anything they want to do, any place they want to go," moans Tong who says his daughters are "flying directly into this hurricane, where hardly a day goes by when somebody doesn't try to control their lives, make decisions for them. Not just impair their liberties or take their fundamental rights away, but to do them harm, that's what this is about."
The irony of this statement is not lost on those who can remember back to the time when Tong's party gleefully removed the religious exemption to the childhood vaccination schedule, or when covid vaccine mandates cost people their livelihoods and sometimes their actual lives.
The head of left wing activist group, Reproductive Equity Now ("REN"), Rebecca Hart Holder, echoed Tong's sentiment over the "confusion, fear and grief" felt by the pro-abortion crowd after Trump got re-elected.
REN believes the ability to have abortions should be guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And when they say "reproductive equity" they mean "using an intersectional lens to fight for access to reproductive health care."
In the news conference, Hart Holder gaslights listeners by arguing that Trump will ban abortion nationwide, even though it's something Trump has never said. "People will always need abortions," she insists.
"Remember, Roe fell because of Donald Trump," reminded Tong in a fearful voice.
The free REN Abortion Legal Hotline was built in collaboration with the Massachusetts and Connecticut Attorneys General Offices, non-profit partners, and law firms across the two states.
The hotline -- which refrains from using "gendered language," because transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming individuals need "abortion care" too -- will help connect Massachusetts or Connecticut-based abortion providers, as well as women seeking abortions in the two states, with "free legal advice and resources about their rights to access and provide lawful abortions."
By the way, girls under the age of 18 are told they can use the hotline, and are promised that staff will not notify their parents, legal guardian, or government agencies or officials.
Additionally, if any woman feels they have been "harmed by deceptive practices, harassment, or medical malpractice at an anti-abortion center" the hotline would love to hear the case, and potentially hook them up with pro bono attorneys.
REN has identified at least two dozen anti-abortion centers in Connecticut.
The "danger" of anti-abortion centers, according to REN, is that they "tend to 'counsel' a pregnant person by engaging in a lengthy discussion about fetal development, providing disinformation about the alleged "dangers" of abortion, and pressuring the individual to choose parenthood or adoption." As if that's a bad thing.
The 48-page guidebook says both medication abortions and procedural abortions are "safe and effective" even though that is not true.
A simple search on the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System reveals 3,930 serious adverse reactions to abortion medications, including 332 deaths.
"Anti-abortion centers often offer abstinence-only sex education, post-abortion support, spiritual support, or bible study," complains REN. "While some people need and want post-abortion counseling, and may seek it through their faith leaders, there is no scientific evidence that abortion results in adverse mental health outcomes."
That's actually not true either, as a quick check of the NIH National Library of Medicine reveals, for instance, a 30-year longitudinal study that links abortion "with a small increase in risk of mental disorders" and another study that found some women experience PTSD and depression after having an abortion.
Nonetheless, REN warns that, "anti-abortion centers often make abortion seem scary or unsafe or have a message of 'choose life' instead of offering unbiased all-options counseling."
The guide tells women who want to kill their babies to "listen for language" and if the health care provider uses terms like “baby” and “child” and "doesn’t respect the language you are using, including talking about the gestational age of the fetus or embryo, you may be in an anti-abortion center."These anti-abortion centers additionally "may offer you baby clothes, food, accessories, or financial support if you don’t have an abortion."
That's supposed to make you think that the anti-abortion folks are scary and evil?
The guide additionally tells women how to report anti-abortion centers for "deceptive practices" by filing a complaint with the Attorney General's office.
Considering how friendly the REN folks were with CT AG Tong, expect those reports to be taken seriously.
Meanwhile, REN offers a host of tips for putting those pesky pro-lifers in their place -- exposing them in the press, flyers and mail campaigns, trashing anti-abortion centers online and in reviews -- the usual progressive activist tactics.
