Connecticut state leaders are promising a firewall to protect abortion rights in the state.

State Attorney General William Tong says Connecticut will fight any attempt to pass a national ban.

Abortion is legal under state law, and Connecticut just expanded who can perform the procedure.

"Connecticut will, of course, continue to still be a state where abortion is legal -- for now. But I know the the dynamic in Connecticut has changed," said Peter Wolfgang, Family Institute of Connecticut. 

Connecticut was the first state to legalize abortion back in 1990.