State Senate votes to make Connecticut a possible abortion 'refuge'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "This is a deep, deep issue for me." "I am so torn, my heart is racing," said Moore, D-Bridgeport, recalling that Planned Parenthood gave her medical care for 40 years and employed her for eight years.
46% : "Connecticut has been a state that has thought about the issue of abortion in such a way that in 1990 we codified Roe, offering protections to people in this state," said Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who led the debate along with Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, a physician who is co-chairman of the Public Health Committee.
45% : If signed into law by the governor, it would protect medical personnel who perform abortions in Connecticut from legal action from states where abortion has been restricted or banned.
41% : "This goes back to Africa for me," said Miller, D-Stamford, who emotionally recalled a history of racism and under-educated woman using abortion for birth control.
40% : Part of it is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's expected overturning or modification this summer of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973.

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