This state isn't known as a battleground on social issues but a fault line is emerging over abortion.
The Family Institute of Connecticut, which staunchly opposes abortion rights, is publicly tangling with NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut, the state's leading abortion rights advocacy group.
FIC recently participated in a campaign, dubbed 40 Days for Life, that dispatches volunteers to clinics providing abortion services. The volunteers aim to draw "attention to the evils of abortion" through prayer, fasting, constant vigil and community outreach, according to the group's website.
But NARAL said some clients at one Hartford reproductive health center continue to be "harassed as they seek health-care services,'' according to an email the group sent to its members (and circulated by the Family Institute.)
Anti-abortion protestors have blocked walkways and followed patients while shouting anti-abortion "rhetoric," NARAL states.
Untrue, according to the FIC.