Is your legislator having public meetings this Spring? FIC now has a good idea of what bills will be proposed for a vote this legislative session. Print this list and ask your legislator to oppose these bad bills for Connecticut . . .
2025 List of Bad Bills & Talking Points
Abortion and Gender Constitutional Amendment – SJ 35– A CT Constitution Amendment that would preempt all state restrictions on abortion and enshrine discrimination against women based on gender into the Connecticut Constitution. Contact your legislator here about this bill.
A Constitutional Amendment adding “sex”, as defined, will preempt all state restrictions on abortion (outlined in HB 7213 below).
A Constitutional Amendment to add “sex” to the constitution which includes all “gender identity and expression; and related health care” will make it impossible to protect girls against boys playing in their sport or restrict puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for minors in an experimental and misguided attempt to treat “gender dysphoria”.
Basic statutory interpretation mandates that a more recent Constitutional Amendment will control conflicting statutes or regulations, including any restriction on abortion.
Could void CGS 19a-601 limitations on persons under age 16 requiring counseling. It would preempt all 19a-602 limitations on abortions after “viability” and interfere with any restrictions on who may perform an abortion.
Bill to remove all abortion regulations – HB 7213 would remove all regulations restricting abortion including C.G.S 19a-116: informed consent and counseling requirements and their associated regulations sections 19a-116-1 et.al, the reporting requirements, conscience protections, “infant born alive” protections and third trimester restrictions on abortion in sections 19-13-D54 of the Connecticut Regulations. This is the biggest assault on abortion restrictions in Connecticut since Roe v. Wade. Contact your legislator here about this bad bill.
Eliminating reporting requirements for reporting will hide disproportionate outcomes of abortion on minority populations in Connecticut. Only 19% of Connecticut’s population is Black & Hispanic, but they account for 57% of all abortions.
Without state conscience exemptions, medical providers including nurses, students and doctors will have fewer protections and may be subject to punishment for not participating in abortion (19-13-D54f).
Connecticut law was enacted in reaction to concerns of infants born alive and being abandoned or experimented on. This 50 year old regulation (19-13-D54) has been and continues to be necessary to protect infants born alive in Connecticut.
Library Porn Bills – HB 1271 (KIDS) and HB 7014 (ED) Library Bills that prevent parents and members of the community from objecting to sexually descriptive and explicit books in school and public libraries. HB 7217 (lines 173 to 180) creates a cause of action for parents to be sued. Contact your legislator here about this bill.
Bringing Kids to CT for Gender Transitions & Abortion – SB 7would create a $30 million slush fund (sec. 37) and” Safe Harbor Fund” (lines 1049 to 1064) with state resources for payment to doctors who provide abortions, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and cross-sex surgeries to treat gender dysphoria on minors and collateral expenses for minors, even under age 16, to come to Connecticut for these procedures. Submit quick written testimony against this bill using “March 24, 2025 hearing date, “oppose” and “SB0007” at this link.
Puberty blocking drugs are being used experimentally to “block” a “wrong puberty” – which prevents sexual and mental development and arrests natural maturity and a pathway to naturally overcome gender dysphoria.
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