CT Rep. Lucy Dathan Endorsed By Planned Parenthood CT And NARAL

Press release from Dathan Campaign:

Oct. 5, 2020

State Representative Lucy Dathan (D-Norwalk/New Canaan) announced today that she has received the endorsement of Planned Parenthood Connecticut and NARAL.

Rep. Dathan, in just two short years in office, has worked tirelessly as a fervent supporter of pay equity and paid family leave, and has advocated for expanding healthcare requirements to include prenatal care, especially as it relates to African-American mothers who consistently have the highest mortality rate in birth of any demographic in the country.

She also has voted to:

• Eliminate cost-sharing for certain mammograms and breast ultrasounds
• Strengthen CT’s “Time’s Up” bill, which lengthens the statute of limitations on reporting sexual abuse and assault and, among other things, increases penalties for sexually assaulting a mentally incapacitated person.

In accepting the coveted support of these two key human rights’ organizations, Dathan asserted:

“I’ve dedicated myself to protecting women’s reproductive freedom here in Connecticut and will continue to do so when I return to Hartford for a second term.

“No individual or law should dictate what a woman is able to do with her own body. I will stand firm in my opposition to any attempts to draft laws that say otherwise,” asserted State Rep. Dathan.

Planned Parenthood cited Dathan’s record in her first term in the Connecticut State House and called her a staunch advocate for Women’s Rights, which the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg equated with Human Rights. Planned Parenthood lauded Rep. Dathan for her work in the Connecticut General Assembly over the last two years. The legislative body, according to Planned Parenthood, has “fended off the dangerously restrictive laws enacted in many states that are increasing rather than minimizing health risks.”

Dathan went on to explain how now, more than ever, we need to have a strong voice in our state legislature that will protect everyone’s individual rights:

“Reproductive health and health care choices will come under attack by a realigned Supreme Court. The current presidential nominee’s views will afflict more damage and reverse long upheld policies,” attested Dathan.

In the 2019 session, legislators worked with Planned Parenthood to:

• Pass the paid family medical leave law;
• Pass policy to ensure access to PrEP for young people to prevent the transmission of HIV; and
• Work to establish the LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network through the legislature.

“We need to keep this state moving ‘forward not backward,’ as the significance of my campaign motto becomes even more apparent,” concluded State Rep Lucy Dathan.

This press release was produced by Dathan Campaign. The views expressed here are the author's own.