Bob Stefanowski stays silent on abortion law his running mate helped pass – CT Mirror

Gov. Ned Lamont is challenging his Republican opponent, Bob Stefanowski, to break his silence and take a position on the abortion rights bill that recently passed with the support of Stefanowski’s running mate, Rep. Laura Devlin of Fairfield. “I think that any candidate for governor has got to speak up and let us know where you stand,” Lamont said Tuesday at a ceremonial signing of the bill outside the Capitol. “What have I heard from the Republican candidate for governor? Crickets.” Stefanowski has remained silent on House Bill 5414 in the three weeks since it cleared the House of Representatives on an 87-60 vote, with Devlin and six other Republicans voting with 80 Democrats in support.  The measure provides a “safe harbor” to women from states with restrictive abortion laws who get abortions in Connecticut, as well as the clinicians who provide them. It also conforms state law with a 21-year-old legal opinion permitting APRNs, nurse midwives and physicians’ assistants to perform first-trimester abortions by suction, the most common type of early abortion. Stefanowski’s only comment on abortion in recent weeks was a suggestion that abortion was not an issue in Connecticut. He responded cautiously to the leak of a draft…
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