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REPRESENTATIVE CATHY TILTON (R)  WASILLA / FAIRVIEW

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Abortion Funding Committees

The Speaker of the House assigns Members to Committee Chairmanship and Membership positions in the House.  The House Finance Committee writes the Budget that either protects babies by prohibiting abortion spending, or funds abortions that take nearly 800 innocent lives.

  • The Speaker selected the Finance Committee Co-Chairs.
  • The Speaker selected the Planned Parenthood advocate Members.
  • The Speaker gave abortion advocates the majority of the Finance Committee votes.

Representative Tilton, if “personnel is policy,” then your House Finance Committee assignments demonstrate that forcing Alaskans to pay for babies to be killed is shamefully your policy.

In this Post-Roe era where the constitution does not recognize “a right to abortion” or abortion funding, your actions are beyond defensible.

  • Your actions and votes clearly advance the abortion industry’s agenda.
  • Your committee assignments have cost nearly 400 innocent lives.
  • Your Finance Committee assignments will fund nearly 1,600 babies’ deaths.
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Urgent Need to Restructure the House Finance Committee for a Pro-Life Budget.

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50 YEARS TOO LONG

Urgent Need to Restructure the House Finance Committee

Speaker Tilton Must Act Decisively For a Pro-Life Budget.

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URGENT NEED TO RESTRUCTURE

THE HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE

FOR A PRO-LIFE BUDGET

During a pivotal moment in Alaska’s Legislature, the recent resignation of Independent Representative Josiah Patkotak presents more than a mere reshuffling of committee members; it offers a profound opportunity to steer our state towards a future that fervently upholds the sanctity of life. This is not just a matter for our legislators; it is a clarion call to every Alaskan who values life.

Almost providentially, the transition falls on Sanctity of Human Life Week, opening the door for significant changes. Alaska Right to Life recently sent a letter to Representative Cathy Tilton recommending Representative David Eastman for the CCM.  Representative Eastman’s steadfast commitment to protecting babies provides Alaskans waiting to be born a committed voice on the CCM.

Additionally, the one-member House Republican Caucus is the only Caucus currently without representation on the Committee on Committees. 

The Bi-Partisan Majority Caucus consisting of Republicans and influential Planned Parenthood endorsed abortion advocates is heavily represented on the CCM, as is the Democrat led House Minority.

But Republicans who refuse to caucus with Democrats and Planned Parenthood’s abortion advocates will appreciate the representation on the Committee on Committees that only Representative Eastman can provide.

It’s likely that Representative Patkotak’s seat on the CCM provided his region of the state with a voice on the CCM, and that replacing him with Representative Eastman could raise concerns about geographical or regional representation.  In that case, Representatives Vance, Carpenter, and Tomaszewski have all made strong public declarations of their commitment to protect innocent human life from conception to natural end of life and should be considered as Representative Eastman’s alternate.

The CCM membership is based on the House Speaker’s sole discretion to appoint members to the committee.  Shortly after being elected last year, Speaker Tilton appointed the following members to the CCM:

Representative Tilton (R), Chair                                                                                                   

Representative C. Johnson (R)                                                                                                      

Representative D. Johnson (R)                                                                                                      

Representative Patkotak (N)                                                                                                       

Representative Schrage (D)

Those members, along with Speaker Tilton, then structured and staffed every House Committees in what’s called the Committee on Committees Report.

The CCM Report is then ratified by a majority vote of the House.  Last year’s CCM Report was approved by at 39 to 1 vote.

Every bill that was either passed, stalled, or killed in a committee is directly linked to that 39 to 1 vote January 19, 2023.  Every baby’s death with taxpayer funds ultimately has the sanction of the 39 members who ratified the CCM Report that placed the House Finance Committee in the hands of Planned Parenthood’s abortion advocates.

The current composition of the House Finance Committee disproportionately favors abortion advocacy and abortion funding in our State Operating Budgets.  Instead of a balanced representation of all Alaskans, the House Finance Committee resembles a skewed scale needing urgent recalibration. This isn’t just an administrative or even a legislative issue; it’s a moral imperative that echoes through every part of Alaska.

Consider for a moment that exactly one year ago, on January 19, 2023, the House voted 39 to 1 to staff the House Finance Committee as the most powerful abortion advocacy committee in the House, possibly the whole Legislature.

As you can see, the current composition of the House Finance Committee disproportionately favors abortion advocacy and abortion funding in our State Operating Budgets.  Instead of a balanced representation of all Alaskans, the House Finance Committee resembles a skewed scale needing urgent recalibration. This isn’t just an administrative or even a legislative issue; it’s a moral imperative that echoes through every part of Alaska.

Remember that exactly one year ago, on January 19, 2023, the House voted 39 to 1 to staff the House Finance Committee as the most powerful abortion advocacy committee in the State of Alaska.

The battle for the House Finance Committee is critical for at least two reasons:

  1. The House Finance Committee essentially writes the Legislature’s budget after reviewing the Governor’s Budget Proposal.
  2. Approximately 70% of all legislation must pass the House Finance Committee.

This is a crucial time for protecting babies from abortion.  Considering the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson opinion which rightly overturned Roe v Wade, we’re standing on the edge of a completely new era.  The shadow and specter of a federal ‘right to abortion’ have been tossed on the trash heap of history – and with it goes any claim to a “right” to abortion and abortion funding in Alaska’s Constitution.  This isn’t time for caution and indecision, but decisive action.

Now, more than ever, your voice is crucial. Representative Tilton once told me, “If I could save just one life, it would all be worth it.” While this sentiment resonates with each of us, influencing committee assignments and public policy has the force of saving hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of babies from being murdered by abortion.

A state budget that loudly proclaims the sanctity of human life will no longer be violated will shine as a beacon of our shared commitment to life.

Finally, we must recognize the difficulties ahead.  The Senate is currently controlled by a pro-abortion bi-partisan caucus.  Beyond the Senate, any budget that prohibits abortion funding must make it through the joint Conference Committee.  Each of these challenges – and there are more in the courts are but hurdles in this race for righteousness.

Near the end of his life, John Quincy Adams was challenged on his abolitionist stance in Congress.  He stood alone for years – decades, calling for the abolition of slavery in America.  He was called a failure, ineffective, and blamed constantly for the lack of progress towards abolition.  When asked if he felt like a failure, he responded that while the duty to act was his, the results – abolition – belonged to God.

We share in that duty today – and the freedom to act knowing that God is sovereign in the outcome.

This is not a time for silence or passivity. Alaska Right to Life encouraged Speaker Tilton to rise to this occasion with the courage and resolve it demands.  Will you rise with her?

Send Speaker Tilton your own encouragement – click the button and send her your own encouragement to restructure the House Finance Committee so that it will produce a state budget that loudly proclaims the sanctity of human life will no longer be violated.

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Alaskan Moms at a Crossroads

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Alaskan moms are at a crossroads

MINISTRY TO MOMS

Picture this: a young woman, in her late teens or early twenties, is at a crossroads in her life. 

She’s pregnant at a point in her life where nobody wants her to have a baby.  The baby’s father left has disappeared and her family turned their backs on her.  Out of school, and out of work, she’s couch surfing, feeling alienated, and abandoned.

To call this a crossroads is a bit of an understatement.  From her point of view, every option – every direction leads downhill, fast.

If she keeps the baby, she’ll be all alone.  She’ll become another statistic: a single mom working menial jobs, dependent on government handouts just to get by. 

Or she can go through with the abortion.  She knows what that means.  And if she does, she’ll be haunted by the guilt and shame for the rest of her life. 

Standing at the crossroads of life and death for her baby, she looks right at you, a Pro-Life Counselor, and yells from across Planned Parenthood’s parking lot, “Baby Daddy left and my parents kicked me out.  What can you do for me?” Her voice trembles, a shaky mix of a tough, protective front and bone-shaking fear.

And right there, when she’s feeling most vulnerable, right there at the crossroads, you’re able to offer her another option.  A real choice.  A lifeline.

I didn’t make this up.  It’s real, I’ve experienced it, and it happens outside every Planned Parenthood in Alaska.

But we need it to happen more – you – need to experience it.  And if you can’t, then we need your help recruiting, training, and deploying hundreds of Pro-Life Counselors outside every Planned Parenthood every day they’re open for business.  Day in, day out, giving these women another choice, a bit of support, and that tiny spark of hope.  A lifeline at a crossroads.

And you know what? It actually works. Meaning, 8 out of 10 women end up choosing life for their babies when they get the help and support they need to keep their babies.

We’re at a critically important crossroads ourselves. Your help right now could kickstart some big changes. We’re all in and committed to getting a full-time ministry leader set up in Anchorage to lead a team that’ll be there for women when they need it the most.

Your tax-deductible year-end donation is way more than just a gift. It’s like saying, “Hey, I’m with you, I care about you, and I’ll help you,” to those mothers at the crossroads of life and death for their babies… moms who feel pretty much alone in the world. Here’s where your kindness will go:

  1. Getting a Full-Time Ministry Leader on board: Someone who’s always there, offering guidance and support.
  2. Training and Resources: So our Pro-Life Counselors are super prepared to serve moms and save babies.
  3. Saving babies, supporting moms: Whenever Planned Parenthood is open, our counselors are there, offering help that’s caring and private.
  4. Shutting down more abortion facilities: When moms choose life, abortion facilities start closing their doors.

Our goal? $100,000 by the end of the year.  We’re at a crossroads.  Political solutions are years away, so big or small, your help is huge for these crucial moments.

Join us on this amazing journey. Let’s turn Alaska into a place where moms and their babies aren’t just safe but celebrated.

When she’s at those crossroads, scared, alone, and convinced there’s only one way out, you can show you care, you’ll help, and that she and her baby are safe and will be cared for. 

It’s time.  Be that change.  Be that hope.  Donate now.

MINISTRY & OUTREACH

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  • Statewide Outreach and Education that Protects the Family and What it Means to Be Human
  • Education That Protects Children from Abortion and Gender-Destroying Ideologies
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MINISTRY & OUTREACH

Alaska Right to Life, Inc.
  • Pro-Life Ministry at Abortion Businesses that Serve Moms and Save Babies
  • Statewide Outreach and Education that Protects the Family and What it Means to Be Human
  • Education That Protects Children from Abortion and Gender-Destroying Ideologies
D O N A T E
Alaska Right to Life, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt education and ministry organization under 501(C)3 of the IRC. Contributions and gifts to Alaska Right to Life, Inc. are tax-deductible for IRS purposes.
Tax Deductible

P.S.  Thank you for standing with us for life!  Remember – to have your gifts count for year-end tax deductions, please ensure your mailed donations are postmarked by December 30th and your online gifts are submitted by December 31st.

If you prefer to contribute by mail, please click HERE to print out a CONTRIBUTION FORM and mail it to:

Alaska Right to Life

PO Box 201134

Anchorage, AK 99520.

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Alaska Right To Life

As Alaskans committed to ending abortion for over 45 years, we’re just like you – we’re everyday Alaskans with jobs, and families, living the Alaskan dream, and we want abortion to end and all innocent human lives protected – especially the most innocent and vulnerable.

Alaska Right To Life understands how hard it is to save a single life.  We continue to build coalitions with other ministries, churches, and other advocacy and political groups so that we can protect innocent human lives in any and every way possible.

We have helped tens of thousands of Alaskans get involved, serve in ministry, save babies, influence elections and legislation, and save lives since 1973.

HB 205 LIFE AT CONCEPTION ACT 2023

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THE BASIC FACT IS SIMPLE:

LIFE BEGINS... AT CONCEPTION

Ashley Montague, Geneticist and Professor at Harvard and Rutgers Universities

May 16, 2023

The last bit of snow in my yard melted on Mother’s Day and now the trees are budding and sprouting leaves while the grass comes back to life day by day.

The nine trees we lost in last winter’s storms are off the lawn and the last of the wind blown debris is gone as well.

We are beyond the cold and dark days of winter – and the early morning and late evening light bring a new sense of hope and optimism for a bright and sunny spring and a warm, productive summer for our gardens, fish, and wildlife.

Part of the optimism I feel today is the Life At Conception Act was introduced in the House today.

the basic fact is simple:

LIFE... BEGINS AT CONCEPTION.

Ashley Montague, Geneticist and Professor at Harvard and Rutgers Universities

May 16, 2023

The last bit of snow in my yard melted on Mother’s Day and now the trees are budding and sprouting leaves while the grass comes back to life day by day.

The nine trees we lost in last winter’s storms are off the lawn and the last of the wind blown debris is gone as well.

We are beyond the cold and dark days of winter – and the early morning and late evening light bring a new sense of hope and optimism for a bright and sunny spring and a warm, productive summer for our gardens, fish, and wildlife.

Part of the optimism I feel today is the Life At Conception Act was introduced in the House today.

The LIFE At Conception Act is a comprehensive bill that guarantees equal protection from the moment of conception without exception to the child’s age, level of development, sex, nature of conception, or any other distinguishing characteristic.

The LIFE At Conception Act protects all innocent human life from conception to natural death by addressing several points in Alaska’s Constitutional and Statutory Laws:

Recognizes every child’s Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, equality, equal rights, and equal protection as seen in Article 1, Section 1 of Alaska’s Constitution.

Eliminates abortion access from the right to privacy, by defining privacy to exclude the right to kill a child in accordance with Article 1, Section 22 of the Alaska State Constitution.

Defines children in the womb from the moment of conception as ‘natural persons.’

Defines conception as the beginning of the biological development of a human organism, when the sperm and egg fuse.

Defines abortion as any action taken before or during the birth of a child with the intent to kill the child.

Repeals Alaska’s abortion laws and statutes, primarily Alaska Statute 18.16.

Provides legal protections to medical professionals who, despite their best efforts to save the life of both mother and child, are unable to preserve the life of a child in emergency medical situations.

Provides criminal penalties for any intentional killing of a child at any age equivalent to negligent homicide, murder, or any other intentional killing of a person.

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The LIFE At Conception Act is a comprehensive bill that guarantees equal protection from the moment of conception without exception to the child’s age, level of development, sex, nature of conception, or any other distinguishing characteristic.

The LIFE At Conception Act protects all innocent human life from conception to natural death by addressing several points in Alaska’s Constitutional and Statutory Laws:

Recognizes every child’s Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, equality, equal rights, and equal protection as seen in Article 1, Section 1 of Alaska’s Constitution.

Eliminates abortion access from the right to privacy, by defining privacy to exclude the right to kill a child in accordance with Article 1, Section 22 of the Alaska State Constitution.

Defines children in the womb from the moment of conception as ‘natural persons.’

Defines conception as the beginning of the biological development of a human organism, when the sperm and egg fuse.

Defines abortion as any action taken before or during the birth of a child with the intent to kill the child.

Repeals Alaska’s abortion laws and statutes, primarily Alaska Statute 18.16.

Provides legal protections to medical professionals who, despite their best efforts to save the life of both mother and child, are unable to preserve the life of a child in emergency medical situations.

Provides criminal penalties for any intentional killing of a child at any age equivalent to negligent homicide, murder, or any other intentional killing of a person.

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DEAR READER,

Do you pray for an end to abortion in Alaska?  If so, there is something urgent that you need to know…

Even though Roe v Wade is in the dustbin of history, the abortion industry is ramping up its efforts here in Alaska with more chemical abortions than we’ve ever seen along with more abortion advocates in the Legislature than at any time in Alaska’s history.

We will fight to protect babies until every child is ensured the right to life, equal protection, and equal justice as both God and our Constitution require.

This is where you come in.

With lives hanging in balance, I hope you will sign this urgent pledge and commit to stand for life!

Please take 30 seconds to add your name by clicking the button below:

I Stand For life

About Alaska Right To Life

As Alaskans committed to ending abortion for over 45 years, we’re just like you – we’re everyday Alaskans with jobs, and families, living the Alaskan dream, and we want abortion to end and all innocent human lives protected – especially the most innocent and vulnerable.

Alaska Right To Life understands how hard it is to save a single life.  We continue to build coalitions with other ministries, churches, and other advocacy and political groups so that we can protect innocent human lives in any and every way possible.

We have helped tens of thousands of Alaskans get involved, serve in ministry, save babies, influence elections and legislation, and save lives since 1973.

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DEAR READER,

Do you pray for an end to abortion in Alaska?  If so, there is something urgent that you need to know…

Even though Roe v Wade is in the dustbin of history, the abortion industry is ramping up its efforts here in Alaska with more chemical abortions than we’ve ever seen along with more abortion advocates in the Legislature than at any time in Alaska’s history.

We will fight to protect babies until every child is ensured the right to life, equal protection, and equal justice as both God and our Constitution require.

This is where you come in.

With lives hanging in balance, I hope you will sign this urgent pledge and commit to stand for life!

Please take 30 seconds to add your name by clicking the button below:

I Stand For life

About Alaska Right To Life

As Alaskans committed to ending abortion for over 45 years, we’re just like you – we’re everyday Alaskans with jobs, and families, living the Alaskan dream, and we want abortion to end and all innocent human lives protected – especially the most innocent and vulnerable.

Alaska Right To Life understands how hard it is to save a single life.  We continue to build coalitions with other ministries, churches, and other advocacy and political groups so that we can protect innocent human lives in any and every way possible.

We have helped tens of thousands of Alaskans get involved, serve in ministry, save babies, influence elections and legislation, and save lives since 1973.

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Republicans Vote To Fund Abortions

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A handful of Alaska House Republicans voted for abortion funding in the state budget today, nearly guaranteeing Alaskans will pay for babies to be killed.

Below is the vote board showing these 5 Republicans joined Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby in killing Amendment 36, which could have prohibited taxpayer money from being used to kill babies.

The amendment details – along with the Representatives’ phone numbers and email addresses – are all below.

Republican Representatives Saddler, Sumner, Prax, Ruffridge, and Stutes sided with the Abortion Lobby today in voting against the ONLY budget amendment that would have saved hundreds of babies.

Representative Stutes would never vote to protect babies’ lives, but even without her vote, the amendment would have passed, and babies’ lives could have been saved.

Hundreds of babies would have had a fighting chance had these Republicans honored the children at risk and the pro-life Alaskans they represent.

Representative Dan Saddler, Eagle River
Representative Jesse Sumner, Wasilla
Representative Mike Prax, North Pole
Representative Justin Ruffridge, Soldotna
Representative Louise Stutes, Kodiak

How many babies’ lives could have been saved?  The State of Alaska paid for 758* babies to be killed here in Alaska – or flown to Washington and Oregon for late-term abortions in 2022.

Where do we get those numbers from?  The State of Alaska produces the Induced Termination of Pregnancy (ITOP) Report every year, showing 546 babies were killed in Alaska last year with tax-payer money.

The State does not report the number of babies killed by abortion outside of Alaska – but they do collect that data, and based on insider information we obtained in 2019, for every 10 babies killed in Alaska, 4 more are carried to Washington and Oregon to be killed in late-term abortion, bringing the total number of Alaskan babies killed with taxpayer money to 758.

The Amendment, Number 36, would have protected babies from being killed by abortion in next year’s operating budget focused on a few key budgeting objectives.

First, it prohibited the State from transferring any money into the Medicaid Services account for abortions.

Next, Amendment 36 reduced portions of the Medicaid budget by $1,000,000, reflecting the total estimated cost of killing babies in 2022.

Finally, by setting the budget values for abortion, Amendment 36 sets the exact amount that the State of Alaska can spend for abortions: $0.00

Paying for babies to be killed is not a Republican value.  It certainly is not a value for elected representatives that are allied with or endorsed by pro-life groups like Alaska Family Council and Pro-Life Alaska.

These legislators need to hear from you and me their votes are outrageous violations of Alaskan babies’ right to life and the trust that voters have put into them in solidly pro-life districts like Eagle River, Wasilla, North Pole, and Soldotna.

WHEN YOU CALL

When you call, be prepared to stand your ground.  Legislators and their staff often resort to all kinds of tactics to confuse, distort, and even to offend.

The issue is simple: 

1. Amendment 36 would have prohibited the state from spending even a cent to pay Planned Parenthood’s abortion invoices.

2. Planned Parenthood endorsed abortion advocate CJ McCormick moved to table (kill) Amendment 36.

3. These Republican Representatives voted with Planned Parenthood abortion advocates to table (kill) the only budget amendment that would have saved hundreds of babies’ lives.

They’ll tell you that ‘tabling’ an amendment simply sets it aside.  In a sense, that’s true, but bringing the amendment back up for debate requires a vote that few, if any will support.  Generally, once an amendment is tabled, it’s impossible to bring it ‘off the table.’

They may also tell you that the budget already has a section that prohibits Medicaid funds from being spent on abortions.  That is true.  However, 20(+) years of abortion funding history makes it clear that what they are describing is unenforceable.

Should politicians mention the Medicaid funding section in the budget, kindly ask them how effective that has been in the past, and how that might prevent the State from paying abortion invoices from any other part of the budget.

EQUAL PROTECTION AND JUSTICE

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Equal Protection & justice

We’ve discussed the routes available to end abortion in Alaska several times.

We’ve identified the options available in part based on the key problems Alaskan babies waiting to be born are facing.

A Runaway Court

Alaska’s Courts decreed in 1997 that abortion is a constitutional right that they interpreted from our Article 1, Section 22 right to privacy.

This was clearly a violation of the Constitution for many reasons.  Most simply, we can point to Justice Alito’s controlling opinion in the case that overruled Roe v Wade when he made it abundantly clear that the constitution provides no provision for abortion whatsoever.

We can also point to the fact that the Alaska Supreme Court was trying to amend our constitution.  However, Article 13, Section 1 makes it clear that only the people and the Legislature have the authority to amend the Constitution.

So in a very simple and direct application of the Alaska Constitution, the Alaska Supreme Court cannot amend the constitution and their interpreted “abortion right” is null and void.

Alaska’s Judiciary exercised the Legislature’s authority once again in 2001 when they ordered the State to pay for abortions performed on Medicaid recipients, claiming yet another interpreted right to abortion and now, abortion funding.

However, Article 9 of Alaska’s Constitution prohibits spending except “by law,” meaning that every dollar spent by Alaska’s government must be appropriated by the legislature in a budget that is passed by a majority of both House and Senate and signed into law by the Governor.

Ordering the government to spend money that the Legislature has not appropriated is a violation of the constitution and is not enforceable.

Now that we’ve identified that Alaska’s Courts have violated the constitution by taking the people’s exclusive right to amend the constitution, exercising the legislature’s exclusive authority to appropriate and spend money, and the governor’s exclusive authority to direct the administration of the government, we can then get to the most despicable abuse of judicial power.

Missing in Action

The second major challenge facing Alaskans waiting to be born is an apathetic and indifferent legislature and governor. 

While this isn’t a new problem, our legislature has certainly become more indifferent over the past 20 years. 

Part of that problem is the dishonesty of Republican candidates who claim to be pro-life, but then haul off and form coalitions with pro-abortion Democrats. 

Another serious issue we’re facing is the prolific persecution of pro-life legislators in both House and Senate.  Think I’m wrong?  When’s the last time you saw a legislator rally the House or Senate for a pro-life bill?

We’ve seen the same thing in the Governor’s office as well.  Fifty years ago Governor Terry Miller vigorously opposed the pro-abortion efforts the activists in the State Senate pushed time and again. 

The insatiable desire to legalize killing babies made Alaska the only state where the Legislature overturned the Governor’s veto of their abortion legalizing bill in 1970.  Since 1970, we haven’t seen a governor rally the state to protect babies waiting to be born.

The problem is clear:  unless all three branches of government are willing to violate the constitutional rights of babies waiting to be born, the abortion proponents and activist judges can only voice their opinions; they have “neither authority nor force; only opinion.”

However, Alaska’s Governors and Legislatures have surrendered their authority to the Courts.

 

RESTORING EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY

FINDING YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

You can find your new House and Senate Districts HERE.

The interactive map will help you find who your current State Representatives.  Click

HERE to FIND YOUR POLITICIANS.  You can also verify your voter records and locations HERE.

Next, if you’re familiar with their voting record or have any questions for them, you can contact them by clicking the links below:

Call your State Senator
You can find your State Senator’s office and phone number HERE.

Call your House Representative
You can find your House Representative’s office and phone number HERE.

Call the Governor’s Office

Finally, finding information about your candidates running in this year’s Primary and General elections isn’t too difficult.  Simply go HERE at the Division of Elections to find Your Candidates.

Alaska Right to Life

As Alaskans committed to ending abortion for over 45 years, we’re just like you – we’re everyday Alaskans with jobs, and families, living the Alaskan dream, and we want abortion to end and all innocent human lives protected – especially the most innocent and vulnerable.

Alaska Right To Life understands how hard it is to save a single life.  We continue to build coalitions with other ministries, churches, and other advocacy and political groups so that we can protect innocent human lives in any and every way possible.

Alaska Right to Life has helped Alaskans get involved, serve in ministry, influence elections and legislation and save babies’ lives since 1973.

Since Roe v Wade has been overruled, every effort to protect babies’ lives has become more urgently important than ever before.  

And because Roe has been overturned AND nothing in Alaskan abortion law has changed, everything in the battle for babies’ lives must.

Things have never been so certain, yet uncertain as they are today.  

Nothing in Alaska’s abortion law or court decrees changes with Roe overturned.  

EVERYTHING in Alaska’s abortion politics changes now that Roe is overruled.

Alaska’s abortion politics MUST change.

Now that Roe is gone, we know several things must change in Alaska: 

We must stop electing lawmakers who are indifferent to the killing of Alaskan babies. 

We must stop advocating for laws that conform to Roe v Wade or compromise on the humanity of babies waiting to be born.

We must surround every abortion facility in Alaska with ministries that help mothers struggling with unplanned and crisis pregnancies get the help and support they need to parent their babies.  

We must promote and support our Pregnancy Resource Centers – the need for their services must grow as access to abortion is restricted and eliminated.

With Roe v Wade overturned, Planned Parenthood and their Abortion Lobby in the Legislature are pulling out all the stops to protect what they have – abortion on demand from conception to birth, without exception, and paid for with your money and mine.

The battle for babies has never been more urgent than right now. 

If we are not successful in electing new legislators and a governor who will not compromise on the humanity of babies… 

If we are not successful in defining privacy in Alaska to exclude abortion…If we are not successful in prohibiting your money from paying for babies to be murdered…

If we are not successful in advancing legislation that provides for equal protection and equal justice for babies…

If we are not successful in surrounding every abortion facility in Alaska with ministries that serve mothers and protect their babies…

If we fail at protecting babies at the abortion center and in the halls of our Legislature, Alaska’s status as an ‘Abortion Safe State’ will be enshrined.

But just think about how this could turn out:

  • Babies are saved at every abortion facility
  • Activist judges removed from the bench
  • Equal protection and justice from conception are provided in our laws
  • Pregnancy Resource Centers provide care and help for mothers and their families
  • Babies are no longer murdered in Alaska

Wednesday’s What’s Happenings July 27, 2022

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We’ve all had some time to digest the Dobbs Opinion that overruled Roe v Wade, and it’s time I start sharing some of the key components of the opinion as we lean into election season and a new push to ban abortion in Alaska. 

In this email series – every week on Wednesdays – I’m going to introduce a new component from the Dobbs opinion with some light commentary and perhaps application to our challenges here in Alaska. 

You’ll see below there are also a few news updates from around Alaska and the Lower 48 to give you a sense of how things are going nationally.

Let me know what you think – you can drop your comments in the email links below.

 

OVERRULING  ROE    |    KEY  FINDINGS

Justice Alito wrote the Controlling Majority Opinion and comes right to the point:

“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.”

While there is great hope here – and what we’ll see in the coming weeks, there is a lot of work to be done, and I think you’ll find that even this huge move in the right direction is incomplete.

Justice Alito was joined in the opinion by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

Chief Just Roberts concurred in judgment (more on that to follow). 

Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented.

CONCURRING
Thomas
Gorsuch
Kavanaugh
Barrett

CONCURRING IN JUDGEMENT
Roberts

DISSENTING
Breyer
Sotomayor
Kagan

One question we must ask early and often is since there is no right to abortion in the US Constitution, then why are we acting like there is a right to abortion in the Alaska Constitution?

Let’s chew on two points briefly: 

1)  The Alaska Constitution is a derivative of the US Constitution, meaning, it must conform in large part to the US Constitution.  If there were no provisions in the US Constitution (the parent), then how could that so-called “right” be found or recognized in Alaska’s Constitution (the child)?

2)  In order for there to be a constitutional right to abortion in Alaska’s Constitution, how must that “right” be balanced against other rights?

Article 1, Section 1 of Alaska’s Constitution is labeled as, “Inherent Rights.”
First of the Inherent Rights is the right to life:

“This constitution is dedicated to the principles that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness…” and “…all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law…”

Since that is true, how many rights must babies lose in Article 1, Section 1 of Alaska’s Constitution in order for abortion to be a constitutional right – let alone legal?

Finally, if babies are persons, then in order to withhold their constitutional rights, it seems to follow that the constitution must have been amended at some point, right?  But that has not happened.

So on this simple logical conclusion, that there is no abortion right in the US Constitution, and there is no abortion right in Alaska’s Constitution, but there IS an inherent right to life, equal rights, and protections under the law, then killing children must necessarily be, and have been illegal.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on these concepts.  Email me HERE.

 

ALASKA  PRO-LIFE  NEWS
KENAI  PERSONHOOD  INITIATIVE

Alaska Right to Life is initiating a grassroots campaign to recognize babies waiting to be born as legal persons and call for equal protection and equal justice by city and borough level resolutions, beginning with the Kenai Peninsula Borough.

Read more and sign the petition HERE

ABORTIONS  ARE  NEVER  MEDICALLY  NECESSARY

It seems that even among pro-lifers the lie that abortions are somehow “medically necessary” is being adopted as the end of abortion becomes more and more of a reality.

Once we peel back the camouflage, this argument is almost always rooted in pro-abortion beliefs, and it comes up as a final stall tactic when every other argument for abortion is dismantled.

The people that raise this argument are rarely sincere – you can tell immediately when you ask them to defend the concept:

Pro-Abortion Challenge:  “Yeah, but what about when the mother’s life is at risk… when she and the fetus will die if she doesn’t terminate the pregnancy?”

Pro-Life Response:  “Are you talking about ectopic pregnancies?  If so, then the procedure that ends the baby’s life shows the limitations of our medical technology, since we cannot reliably remove the baby from the fallopian tubes and implant him in his mother’s uterus.  The intent is to save them both, but medical technology makes that essentially impossible.”

“Is there some other scenario you’re thinking of?”

Pro-Abortion Challenge:  “Yeah, what about when she has cancer, or when she, the baby, or both will die in a complicated delivery?” 

Pro-Life Response:  “How did you come to the conclusion that killing the baby will save the mother’s life?” 

Pro-Abortion Response:  “It happens all the time!”

Pro-Life Response:  “If the mother’s life is at risk, how long would it take to perform the abortion? 

Pro-Abortion Response:  Blank stare.

Pro-Life Response:  “Would the mother survive the 12 to 72 hours it would take to perform a high-risk or late-term abortion on a seriously sick or injured mother?”

Pro-Abortion Response:ANGER…  “So you’re saying the mother has to risk her life for her fetus?  What if she was raped?”

Pro-Life Response:  “Let’s focus on the original question about a mother dying if she isn’t able to have an abortion…  What procedure would the doctors use in the case of a complicated delivery to kill the baby and preserve the mother’s life? 

Pro-Abortion Response:ANGER…  “You don’t know the circumstances she’s facing.  What about…”

Pro-Life Response:  “It sounds like you’re more interested in protecting the legality of killing babies through abortion than you are in solving the problems that lead to, and follow unplanned – and even difficult pregnancies.  Am I getting that right?”

Pro-Abortion Response:ANGER…

I went through this challenge this past weekend at a gun show, of all places.  The fella I was talking to was sincere in his questions, but his underlying – probably unknown to him – motives were exposed when I asked him how the doctors would kill the baby in a complicated delivery.  Of course, that simply does not happen and his argument instantly fell apart.

Finally, please understand the questions are used to challenge the pro-abortion logic and do not in any way insinuate or justify any kind of medical necessity for killing babies.

For expert testimony and examples, please see Live Action’s conversation with a former abortionist:

“In cases where a pregnancy places a woman in danger of death or grave physical injury, a doctor more often than not doesn’t have 36 hours, much less 72 hours, to resolve the problem. Let me illustrate with a real-life case that I managed while at the Albany Medical Center. A patient arrived one night at 28 weeks gestation with severe pre-eclampsia or toxemia. Her blood pressure on admission was 220/160. A normal blood pressure is approximately 120/80. This patient’s pregnancy was a threat to her life and the life of her unborn child. She could very well be minutes or hours away from a major stroke.

This case was managed successfully by rapidly stabilizing the patient’s blood pressure and “terminating” her pregnancy by Cesarean section. She and her baby did well.

This is a typical case in the world of high-risk obstetrics. In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion “to save the mother’s life” would entail undue and dangerous delay in providing appropriate, truly life-saving care. During my time at Albany Medical Center, I managed hundreds of such cases by “terminating” pregnancies to save mothers’ lives. In all those cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero.”You can read more HERE.

You can watch the interview HERE.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on these concepts.  Email me HERE.

https://youtu.be/ysl1tRnk-ig
https://youtu.be/5TmomK2RB2A

PRO-LIFE  HOOSIERS 
CONDEMN  “PRO-LIFE”  SB1

Pro-Life Hoosiers filled the Indiana capital condemning SB1, a 20-week abortion ban that even Indiana Right to Life (often supports compromised bills, opposes total abortion bans) condemned as 

IRTL claims the bill “…goes through the motions on paper, but lacks any teeth to actually reduce abortions in Indiana by holding those who perform abortions or would intentionally skirt the law accountable with criminal consequences. As the bill reads now, the 8,000-plus abortions that take place annually in Indiana would continue unabated…”

Read more HERE and HERE.

Photo credit: Indiana Right to Life

We’ve heard from several friends in Indiana, all of them are condemning the Indiana Republicans for choosing SB1 over other legislation that would protect babies according to current law, “That human physical life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm.”  IC 16-34-2-1.1.

It’s also worth noting that within just a couple days, thousands of pro-life Indianans filled the capital demanding SB1 be withdrawn in favor of truly pro-life legislation.  That is simply not possible in Alaska with our capital in Juneau.  Setting the cost of travel, lodging, food, and transportation aside, the travel and lodging industry simply could not handle such an influx of people coming to the capital.

Finally, similar legislation has been entertained here in Alaska – our republican legislators continue to flirt with bills that “go through the motions on paper, but lack any real teeth” to eliminate abortions.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what’s happening in Indiana.  Email me HERE.

PRO-LIFE  GOVERNOR  CANDIDATE
ATTACKED  IN  NEW  YORK

“His words as he tried to stab me a few hours ago were, ‘You’re done,’ but several attendees, including @EspositoforNY, quickly jumped into action & tackled the guy,” Zeldin tweeted.

The good news, Republican and pro-life governor candidate Zeldin was not seriously hurt and was able to continue his campaign rally.

The bad news, is we’re likely to see more of this behavior against those the secular left and the abortion lobby see as threats to their secular humanist religion.

Read more HERE and HERE

Photo credit: Lee Zeldin on Twitter

ABOUT  ALASKA  RIGHT  TO  LIFE

As Alaskans committed to ending abortion for over 45 years, we’re just like you – we’re everyday Alaskans with jobs, and families, living the Alaskan dream, and we want abortion to end and all innocent human lives protected – especially the most innocent and vulnerable.

Alaska Right To Life understands how hard it is to save a single life.  We continue to build coalitions with other ministries, churches, and other advocacy and political groups so that we can protect innocent human lives in any and every way possible.

We have helped tens of thousands of Alaskans get involved, serve in ministry, save babies, influence elections and legislation and save lives since 1973.

<<First Name>>, since Roe v Wade has been overruled, the Life at Conception Act becomes more urgently important than ever before.  Moving forward, we need your help protecting babies from being murdered in Alaska.

And because Roe has been overturned and nothing in Alaskan abortion law has changed, everything in the battle for babies’ lives must.

The first step in taking action to protect babies’ lives is signing the Life At Conception Act Petition.

Sign the petition

LIFE AT CONCEPTION ACT

Sign the Life at Conception Act Petition

PETITION

If you don’t know who your representatives are, click the link below to find your House and Senate Districts.

Find your Elected Representatives HERE

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

Calling your elected representatives is the next step.  

Call your State Senator
You can find your State Senator’s office and phone number HERE.

Call your House Representative
You can find your House Representative’s office and phone number HERE.

Call the Governor’s Office

 

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

Finally, if you can, chip in $35, $50, $100 or any amount you can afford.

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Things have never been so certain, yet uncertain as they are today.Nothing in Alaska’s abortion law or court decrees changes with Roe overturned.EVERYTHING in Alaska’s abortion politics changes now that Roe is overruled.

Alaska’s abortion politics MUST change.

Now that Roe is gone, we know several things must change in Alaska: 

We must stop electing lawmakers who are indifferent to the killing of Alaskan babies. 

We must stop advocating for laws that conform to Roe v Wade or compromise on the humanity of babies waiting to be born.

We must surround every abortion facility in Alaska with ministries that help mothers struggling with unplanned and crisis pregnancies get the help and support they need to parent their babies.We must promote and support our Pregnancy Resource Centers – the need for their services must grow as access to abortion is restricted and eliminated.
<<First Name>>, with Roe v Wade overturned, Planned Parenthood and their Abortion Lobby in the Legislature are pulling out all the stops to protect what they have – abortion on demand from conception to birth, without exception, and paid for with your money and mine.

The battle for babies has never been more urgent than right now. 

If we are not successful in electing new legislators and a governor who will not compromise on the humanity of babies… 

If we are not successful in defining privacy in Alaska to exclude abortion…If we are not successful in prohibiting your money from paying for babies to be murdered…If we are not successful in advancing legislation that provides for equal protection and equal justice for babies…If we are not successful in surrounding every abortion facility in Alaska with ministries that serve mothers and protect their babies…

If we fail at protecting babies at the abortion center and in the halls of our Legislature, Alaska’s status as an ‘Abortion Safe State’ will be enshrined.

But just think about how this could turn out:

  • Babies are saved at every abortion facility
  • Activist judges removed from the bench
  • Equal protection and justice from conception are provided in our laws
  • Pregnancy Resource Centers provide care and help for mothers and their families
  • Babies are no longer murdered in Alaska

 

Patrick Martin

Alaska Right to Life

(907) 276-1912

PatMartin@AlaskaRightToLife.org

 

 

PS:  It’s time to end abortion in Alaska.  Your donation today makes the LIFE At Conception Act a reality.
Please DONATE and help us make the LIFE At Conception Act the law and forever end abortion in Alaska.

LIFE AFTER ROE RALLY

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GOSPEL OPPORTUNITY

JULY 9TH AT 1 PM

DELANEY PARK STRIP

GOSPEL OPPORTUNITY

JULY 9TH AT 1 PM

DELANEY PARK STRIP

ABORTION ADVOCATES NEED TO HEAR THE GOSPEL AND TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION

ABORTION ADVOCATES NEED TO HEAR THE GOSPEL AND TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION

We all know that faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ, and few people need the word of Christ more than those who advocate for abortion.  

The Lord is graciously gathering as many as 200 abortion activists on Saturday July 9th from 1 to 3 PM at Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage and we’re assembling a team to share the gospel and truth about abortion as they lament the loss of Roe v Wade.  

If we do not go, how then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed, or heard without a preacher? 

Apostle Paul proclaimed the Truth of Jesus Christ at every opportunity and so should we.  That’s why we’re assembling a team to bring the gospel to abortion proponents to tell them there is life after Roe…

To learn more contact Pat Martin, (907) 276-1912

We all know that faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ, and few people need the word of Christ more than those who advocate for abortion.  

The Lord is graciously gathering as many as 200 abortion activists on Saturday July 9th from 1 to 3 PM at Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage and we’re assembling a team to share the gospel and truth about abortion as they lament the loss of Roe v Wade.  

If we do not go, how then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed, or heard without a preacher? 

Apostle Paul proclaimed the Truth of Jesus Christ at every opportunity and so should we.  That’s why we’re assembling a team to bring the gospel to abortion proponents to tell them there is life after Roe…

 

To learn more contact Pat Martin, (907) 276-1912

 

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The Buck Stops with The Governor

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THIS BUCK STOPS WITH GOVERNOR DUNLEAVY.

THIS BUCK STOPS WITH GOVERNOR DUNLEAVY.

On April 6th, the House voted overwhelmingly to prohibit abortion funding in next year’s budget not once, but twice!

The budget that passed the House had a chance of prohibiting abortion funding and also offered a very small PFD payment.

However, the budget passed by the Senate Republicans offers $5,500 Dividend payments to every eligible Alaskan, while guaranteeing that every abortion invoice Planned Parenthood submits will be paid by you and me, the Alaska taxpayers.

So what’s it going to be?  A full PFD and guaranteed abortion funding for yet another year?

Imagine if you had that choice.  Imagine if you were the one out of nearly 60 legislators that will not vote for a budget that pays both a full Dividend AND for babies to be murdered.

No legislator should be in that position.

And if Governor Dunleavy makes good on his campaign promises from 2016, they won’t have to.

Everybody knows which legislators will NOT vote for a budget that pays for babies to be killed – Eastman and Kurka.  How the others vote, well, we’re just not so sure.

But no legislator should have to make that call on their own, either.

So click the links below and let your elected representatives know that you expect them to do the right thing.  If paying a full PFD requires they sacrifice babies’ lives, then their votes on our behalf should not support such a sacrifice.

So please let your legislators know – right now – that killing babies is never okay, especially with taxpayer money.

On April 6th, the House voted overwhelmingly to prohibit abortion funding in next year’s budget not once, but twice!

The budget that passed the House had a chance of prohibiting abortion funding and also offered a very small PFD payment.

However, the budget passed by the Senate Republicans offers $5,500 Dividend payments to every eligible Alaskan, while guaranteeing that every abortion invoice Planned Parenthood submits will be paid by you and me, the Alaska taxpayers.

So what’s it going to be?  A full PFD and guaranteed abortion funding for yet another year?

Imagine if you had that choice.  Imagine if you were the one out of nearly 60 legislators that will not vote for a budget that pays both a full Dividend AND for babies to be murdered.

No legislator should be in that position.

And if Governor Dunleavy makes good on his campaign promises from 2016, they won’t have to.

Everybody knows which legislators will NOT vote for a budget that pays for babies to be killed – Eastman and Kurka.  How the others vote, well, we’re just not so sure.

But no legislator should have to make that call on their own, either.

So click the links below and let your elected representatives know that you expect them to do the right thing.  If paying a full PFD requires they sacrifice babies’ lives, then their votes on our behalf should not support such a sacrifice.

So please let your legislators know – right now – that killing babies is never okay, especially with taxpayer money.

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STOP ABORTION FUNDING

Representative Tilton, if saving “just one life” is heroic, then dismissing the loss of an innocent life as trivial, especially when it’s funded by taxpayers isn’t just a moral inconsistency; it is a fundamental flaw in your understanding of right and wrong.

I am urging you to reorganize the House Finance Committee to ensure that not a single cent of public money is used to fund abortion. This is your duty, your moral imperative.

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