SB1108 requires public higher education boards to establish a plan, ensuring “reproductive health care services” for residential campus students. “Reproductive health care services” include all medical, surgical, counseling, or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy, contraception, or pregnancy termination, and all medical care relating to the treatment of “gender dysphoria.”
The Connecticut State Senate passed SB1108 on May 25, 2023 by a vote of 34 to 2. We have assigned pluses to the nays because health care of any kind is not the role of higher education, especially publicly funded higher education. Taxpayers should not front the bill for student contraception, “gender dysphoria” and abortion services. The right to life is fundamental, God-given, and protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.