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Providers, advocates urge Connecticut to codify minors' access to reproductive care; attorney warns of secrecy risks
Summary
At a Public Health Committee hearing, health centers and reproductive-rights advocates urged lawmakers to clarify that minors may consent to contraception and pregnancy-related care without parental notification; an attorney warned the bill's language could permit secrecy and broaden protections beyond intent.
Tricia Orozco, vice president of strategic implementation at InterCommunity Healthcare, told the Connecticut General Assembly's Public Health Committee that her community health center wants statutory language clarified so minors can obtain reproductive health care without parental consent.
"As a federally qualified health care center, InterCommunity supports access to care and believes that all people have a right to quality health care, including minors," Orozco said during testimony. She described InterCommunity's operation of nine school-based health centers in East Hartford Public Schools and one in the Manchester Public Schools and said the organization seeks to "codify current practice to include the rights of minors to obtain reproductive health care,…
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