Before you learn the relationship between Alaska’s Elected Representatives, State Budgets, and State funded abortions, please understand you will learn things about your state and the men and women you’ve elected to represent you that are not flattering.

While many of your elected representatives have acted with courage and integrity regarding abortion in Alaska, you’ll find that most did not.

What you’re about to learn about abortion funding and your elected representatives below and in the attached documents isn’t intended to scandalize any particular elected representative or single out any particular elected representative for political action.

You will find out, however, the indifference to children being killed – and your tax dollars being used to pay for their destruction – has been a pattern of behavior of nearly every elected representative, except when it comes time for their reelections.

The Alaska State Operating Budget has no effect on the number of children killed with state funds, nor the amount of money the State paid to Alaska’s abortionists.

Alaska’s elected representatives and governors have known this since 2001. Continuing to amend and pass budgets that demonstrate the “intent to defund Planned Parenthood,” while knowing that the only way to stop paying for the killing of innocent children is simply to stop paying. Lacking the competence and courage to do anything less while presenting unenforceable budget restrictions demonstrates nothing but deceitful cowardice.

Yet for years we’ve heard from candidates, incumbents, and even pro-life groups like Alaska Right to Life campaign on and for “defunding Planned Parenthood,” and “eliminating abortion funding” from the state budget.

CANDIDATES. Even the most well-meaning candidate likely has no idea the budget has zero effect on the number of children killed by abortion with state funds.

ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. Since 2001, the Alaska Legislature has repeatedly passed budgets that eliminated abortion funding from the budge and Alaska Governors have signed those budgets into law, knowing full well:

• The Department of Health and Social Services will obey the 2001 court order to pay every claim it receives within 90 days.
• The Department of Law will instruct the Governor to consider the budget language as unconstitutional, knowing the Department of Health and Social Services will continue to obey the 2001 court order to pay every abortion claim it receives within 90 days.

PRO-LIFE GROUPS. Immediately following the 2001 Supreme Court decision ordering the State to pay all medically necessary abortion claims it receives, pro-life groups rallied to find a way to limit the number of state funded abortions within the parameters of the court’s order.

To their credit, pro-life groups operate from the outside – they don’t have access to Department of Law memos or Department of Health and Social Service reports that would help them form more effective and God honoring plans.

To their shame, pro-life groups resigned themselves to operate within the rules set by a corrupt court that was – and still is – willing to ignore and change the rules as it fits their agenda. Hindsight shows us that direct confrontation with unjust laws, unjust decisions, unconstitutional abuse of rights and power should have been the approach since the courts created the “constitutional right to abortion” out of thin air on November 21, 1997.

Pro-life groups, candidates, and elected representatives at all levels of state government have wasted time, money, and trust for nearly 20 years while children’s lives are destroyed year after year with no clear end in sight.

The 2020 Alaska State Operating Budget, HB 39, repeats nearly 20 years of grandstanding on budgets that promise to eliminate abortion funding while leaving the court’s order to pay every abortion claim received fully intact.

Because the courts have changed the rules every time pro-life groups, governors, and legislators have tried to protect innocent human life, it’s time to directly confront unjust laws, unjust court decisions, and unconstitutional abuse of rights and power.

The only way to stop paying paying for children to be killed in the womb is simply to stop paying.

Here’s why it works: we have a duty to obey the Constitution and so do our elected representatives and officers, appointed judges and justices, and even appointed department commissioners.

If our elected representatives obey the constitution, fulfill their constitutional responsibilities, and exercise their constitutional authorities, the “fundamental” and “constitutional right to abortion” and the court orders to pay for children to be killed will unravel.

Going back to the Alaska Constitution brings the court’s actions in direct conflict with the Constitution.

In 1998, the State of Alaska adopted measures resembling the U.S. Hyde Amendment, restricting abortion payments to only those necessary to protect a pregnant woman’s life if the baby were allowed to grow to full term.

Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and what we’ll refer to as the abortion industry – various abortionists, NARAL, NOW, etc. all joined in suit against the State of Alaska.

The primary basis the courts decided in favor of the abortion industry is the concept that the State violated the Alaska Constitution’s equal protection clause.

Article 1, Section 1 of Alaska’s Constitution tells us that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, etc. and that all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law.

Under this section, the court presumes at least two things:

• Abortion is counted as a natural right to be protected under the law.
• Children are not entitled to natural – constitutional – rights until they are born.

Before new constitutional rights can be recognized, the Constitution itself must first be amended. The strict rules for amending the Alaska Constitution are outlined in the Constitution itself:

Wanting to create – not recognize – new constitutional rights, the Courts took a more direct route to their decided end:

In 1997, the Alaska Supreme Court created the “constitutional right to abortion,” by defining our constitutional right to privacy – and violating the Constitution in the process.

READ more about the creation of the “constitutional right to abortion.”

Because the protection of human life begins and ends with the Constitution, it is to the Constitution that we return.

While every point in the Constitution isn’t immediately obvious to all of us, understanding the plain and common sense assertions and requirements of most of the constitution doesn’t require the help or condescension of constitutional scholars, lawyers, and judges.

With the “creation” of the so-called “constitutional right to abortion,” children’s existing and equal rights – to life, liberty, and protection under the law were destroyed.

LEARN about restoring children’s natural right to life from conception to natural end HERE.

Returning to a proper understanding of our elected representatives’ limits, authority, and corresponding responsibilities – and exercising the courage to push an activist judiciary and indifferent legislature back into their proper roles is the only path forward.

• Eliminate abortion payments by not paying abortion claims.
• Eliminate abortion industry grants and reimbursements
• Fight and impeach activist judges that continue to violate the constitution
• Define privacy to exclude a right to abortion
• Eliminate abortion industry access to our kids and public venues
• Pass the Life At Conception Act