Public Hearing On SB 144

On March 9th at the Ct. State Capital, there was a public hearing on SB 144 "An Act Concerning Deceptive Practices at Limited Services Pregnancy Centers" like Middletown's ABC Women's Center.

This is the 3rd year that NARAL CT and Planned Parenthood have been trying to pass legislation. This proposed legislation exists primarily due to an ideological conflict between the pregnancy resource centers and the organizations who support this legislation, such as NARAL and Planned Parenthood.

FIC's Communication Director Christina Bennett who worked in the past for ABC Women's Center testified against SB 144:

A Pregnancy Center is defined as centers that do not provide referrals for abortions or emergency contraception. This automatically excludes any center, such as Planned Parenthood centers, from being covered by this proposed legislation because they perform or refer for abortions. If any pregnancy care center in Connecticut added abortion referrals to its list of services it to would no longer be covered by this proposed legislation.

Below is a video of all testimony's on both sides of the issue. SB 144 hearing does not begin until about one hour and twenty minutes so fast forward to that time frame to start listening. Many of The ABC Women's Center were there and made testimonies.

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Also you can click to see: all of the written Testimonies made by people who could not attend here!