Submitted by Tricia Dalton, Cos Cob
Tina Courpas is pro-choice. Rachel Khanna has repeatedly lied to voters about Tina’s pro-choice position. Tina Courpas is indeed pro-choice but would have voted to protect women’s reproductive health and safety by limiting those who can perform abortions to doctors.
Do people realize girls of any age can get an abortion in Connecticut without parental consent or notification? This means a 15-year-old girl can seek an abortion on her own, without an adult involved. But Rachel Khanna supports taking that a step further. Khanna voted that not even a doctor has to be involved. Rachel Khanna supports nurse midwives and RN’s – not doctors – to give abortions to women of any age in Connecticut. Since the medical community does not uniformly agree that this practice is safe, Tina Courpas does not either.
As a woman and a mother, if someone I cared about was confronted with the awful decision to have to have an abortion, I would encourage the absolute safety of having it performed by a doctor.
Tina will fully defend Connecticut women’s access to abortion. Where she truly differs from Rachel Khanna is that Tina is also careful and thoughtful about protecting the health and safety of the women and girls who seek abortions.
Tricia Dalton
Editor’s Note: Minors can receive abortion care in Connecticut without parental notification. People under age 16 are required by law to receive counseling during their abortion care visit. See CT.gov. “Abortion Access in Connecticut.”
There is also information there about Public Act 22-19, which allows more types of practitioners to perform certain abortion-related care: Advanced practice clinicians, registered nurses (APRNs), nurse-midwives, and physician assistants (PAs) can now receive training to provide aspiration abortion care.
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