HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, Gov. Ned Lamont pledged Tuesday to sign a key abortion bill that would be the most consequential in Connecticut in the last 32 years.
The state House of Representatives was expected to start debating after 6 p.m. Tuesday in an unusual floor debate in Connecticut as the state’s abortion law from 1990 has not been changed in any major way. Lawmakers took two bills Tuesday and merged them into one, and they included the provisions that Lamont said he would sign into law.
One key provision would expand who’s able to perform abortion services — allowing advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants and nurse-midwives to provide medication and aspiration care for first-trimester abortions.
