“Right now, patients need our support, providers need our guidance,” Hart Holder said. “This movement demands bold, innovative, tenacious, state-based leadership, and that’s why we are so proud to be fighting back against the chaos and confusion that anti-abortion politicians have sowed with a new resource to support patients, providers, and helpers here.”

Rebecca Hart Holder, presidente da REN, sublinhou a importância do serviço neste momento, afirmando que “após a eleição presidencial de terça-feira, há muita confusão, medo e até luto. Os pacientes precisam de nosso apoio, e os provedores necessitam de orientação.” Ela também destacou que a situação atual exige liderança estadual forte e inovadora para proteger os direitos reprodutivos.

Rebecca Hart Holder, president of Reproductive Equity Now, said the Connecticut abortion legal hotline is free and confidential, and is an expansion of the Massachusetts hotline.

Holder said that they have heard questions such as: "'I'm an abortion provider helping a patient traveling from out of state. How do I protect the patient? And how do I protect myself?' 'I'm a patient traveling for care? How do I know I'm safe? Where can I go to make sure I can access legitimate care?' 'I'm the parent of a young person in a banned state, and I need to get them abortion care. How do I do it?'"

“This hotline will be a lifeline in a second hostile Trump administration,” said Rebecca Hart Holder, president of REN. “Attorney General [Ken] Paxton in Texas has made clear that he will go after the private health care records of patients. There is a law on the books in Texas that allows you, as any person, to file a lawsuit against a provider for offering abortion care. So we should very much anticipate that that is coming to all states.”

“After Tuesday's presidential election, we know that there is a lot of confusion, fear, terror and grief,” said President of the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation Rebecca Hart Holder. “Right now, patients need our support providers need our guidance. This movement demands bold innovative tenacious state based leadership.

"Questions like, 'I’m an abortion provider helping a patient traveling from out-of-state. How do I protect the patient?' And 'how do I protect myself? I'm a patient traveling for care. How do I know I’m safe?'” Rebecca Hart Holder of Reproductive Equity Now said.

Attorney General William Tong and the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation announced the creation of a new abortion legal hotline for providers and patients in CT.

"This free and confidential legal resource will be able to help connect providers and patients seeking or offering care with attorneys in Connecticut for pro bono legal assistance," said Rebecca Hart Holder, president of Reproductive Equity Now. "Patients and providers can call our hotline at 833 309- 6301, or they can fill out a secure form at our website, which is reproequitynow.org/hotline."

Advocacy groups like Reproductive Equity Now were also there to support students and to hear from them.

“We want to ensure that students can access all of the care and support they need so they can continue pursuing their educational and career goals,” said Liz Gustafson, the Connecticut state director of Reproductive Equity Now.