Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

The devil lies in the definitions provided in House Bill 7070 . In 1991, a constitutional amendment providing for an income tax and a cap on spending narrowly passed in Connecticut’s General Assembly. The income tax, for good or ill, passed muster and was soon applied; not so the cap on spending. Nearly thirty years later, Attorney General George Jepsen advised that the spending cap was void because legislators had not provided needed definitions to activate it. The title of House Bill 7070, introduced by the Public Health Committee, is “ AN ACT CONCERNING DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING PRACTICES OF LIMITED SERVICES PREGNANCY CENTERS . ” The bill addresses the alleged deceptive advertising  practices  of “limited services pregnancy centers,” more commonly known as “ faith-based pregnancy centers ,” and the legislation is outrigged with a full array of definitions that miraculously do not apply to so called “health centers” providing abortion, even though, as some have pointed...