{"id":264995,"date":"2022-03-25T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=264995"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:39:03","slug":"connecticut-legislation-non-physicians-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/connecticut-legislation-non-physicians-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut legislation would allow non-physicians to commit abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly-introduced legislation in Connecticut would allow non-physicians, including Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) and nurse-midwives, to commit abortions. Abortion supporters claim that the bill, HB 5261<\/a> or An Act Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Care,\u00a0is necessary because there is a lack of physicians willing to commit abortion in the state. For\u00a0years, abortion numbers have been on the decline in the state.<\/p>\n

The State of Abortion in Connecticut report states<\/a> that there was a 32% decline in abortions between 2010 and 2019. According to CT Insider<\/a>, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) has had to close one-third of its abortion facilities within the state because there were not enough physicians to staff them.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s just one data point, but I think it\u2019s a good example of the constraint on access to care that we are seeing,\u201d PPSNE’s CEO and president Amanda Skinner said during public testimony in support of the bill.<\/p>\n

Abortion is legal in Connecticut until the arbitrary age of viability<\/a>, with the exception of abortion being allowed until 40 weeks if there is a risk to the mother’s health. However, deliberately killing a preborn child is never truly medically necessary<\/a>. Delivering a preborn child by emergency C-section if the mother’s life or health is in danger takes about an hour. A second trimester abortion can take up to three days.<\/p>\n

CT Mirror<\/a> reports that Senator Jillian\u00a0Gilchrest, the former executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut, explained that the legislation is necessary because women currently have to wait an average of 12 days for an aspiration abortion, a procedure used to kill a preborn child in the first trimester. In expanding who is allowed to commit abortions, she wants to reduce the wait-time and make Connecticut a lucrative abortion destination for women who might travel from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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While many contend that abortion is a common procedure and everyday health care, in reality, a first-trimester surgical aspiration (suction) D&C abortion causes the preborn child to be torn apart as he is suctioned through a powerful tube out of his mother’s body. It carries the risk<\/a> of incomplete abortion, which occurs when pieces of the child are left behind, injury to the uterus or cervix, hemorrhage, infection, future pregnancy complications, and even death<\/a>. Likewise, a second-trimester D&E abortion procedure, which abortionists describe as “destructive and violent<\/a>,” kills the child by dismemberment when the abortionist tears her arms and legs from her torso and removes them before crushing her skull. It carries the risk<\/a> of cervical and uterine perforation, incomplete abortion, infection, hemorrhage, and death.<\/p>\n

Allowing a medical provider who is not trained as a physician only increases the risk of injury to women who undergo these dangerous procedures.<\/p>\n