WE NEED MINUTEMEN FOR LIFE
Pro-life Alaskans must unite for action now, or next session, our legislature will extend abortion’s deadly reach into virtually every community pharmacy in Alaska, targeting indigenous families in remote areas.
Sen. Cathy Giessel has expertly converted her SB 147 / HB 195 in the sheep’s clothing of a pharmacy modernization bill into a legal gateway for pharmacists to dispense chemical abortions via some 300 statewide sites, i.e. doctor’s offices, clinics, and pharmacies in every corner of Alaska. In fact SB 147 is designed after Washington State’s Pharmacist Abortion Access Project, and Sen. Giessel has already assembled a large enough pack of wolves & RINOS to make the same project a reality in Alaska.
Yet there is hope in a Minuteman style of political action, if substantial numbers of pro-life Alaskans enlist in Alaska Right to Life’s grassroots campaign to defend Alaskan families from SB 147. New Minutemen & women join Alaska Right to Life’s ranks every day, but to meet the immediate threat we need a significantly large bolus before the fall session. It only takes a minute to enlist, and it usually takes only a few minutes to answer the occasional calls to action by which Alaska Right to Life rallies pro-life citizens for coordinated action at crucial junctures.
Are Minutemen effective? Alaska Right to Life mustered 2,000 Minutemen in a two-week battle last year that forced the Legislature into an historic joint session of the Legislature and won a 58 to 1 vote (out of 60) to preserve the State’s Midwives Board – and protects women’s right to choose where and with whom they would birth their children.
Accomplishing such a feat with a Republican Governor, Republican Senate President, and Republican House Speaker – all united in their opposition to the joint session – showed Alaska just how much can be accomplished by a small number of pro-life Alaskans lighting brushfires of life and liberty around the state.
This is a most critical juncture. Short of a miracle, Sen. Giessel’s pack can trust Alaska’s gubernatorial shepherd to stand tall and look the other way, and even to overlook the fangs underneath the wooly cover of SB 147 when it lands on his desk.
We don’t have to let this nightmare continue. Instead, like our founding fathers, we must adopt new forms of battle. Alaska Right to Life has constructed an effective grassroots militia which enables busy Alaskans to take effective political action a few minutes at a time, in a concerted effort that will gradually force career politicians to shape up or be shipped out. True, abortion will not go the way of slavery immediately, nor without prayer and fasting, but God requires that we do what we can in the present moment, and we can save countless Alaskan families from the horrors of SB 147 if we begin now. It takes only a couple of minutes to visit alaskarighttolife.org and scroll to the Stop Abortion Pill Expansion button underneath the young soldier you’ll find on the front page.
When you enlist, you’ll receive an email confirming your petition has been received, is being processed, printed, and prepared for delivery. When the bill(s) have a hearing or move closer to a vote, you’ll be alerted. Alaska Right to Life does not sell, share, or spam your email.
Our Founding Fathers fought the British from several directions and fronts. The Brits and their mercenaries came from the north, south, and at many points along the Atlantic Sea coast. Like them, pro-lifers are fighting the battle against abortion on many fronts.
Big Pharma has aimed all of its guns at Alaska in support of SB 147.
Planned Parenthood is fighting with all its might to re-establish abortion funding after losing one year of Medicaid money from HR 1, the Big, Beautiful Bill.
Big Abortion is pushing pro-abortion constitutional amendments across the country.
Like our Founding Fathers, we are embattled on every front. Out gunned, low on ammunition, and in desperate need of more Minutemen for the battles ahead.
But we have another weapon that still hasn’t been used here in Alaska.
Alaska’s Constitution is “dedicated to the principle that all persons have a natural right to life… are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protections under law.”
Our property and criminal laws recognize unborn babies’ property and inheritance rights while protecting them from crimes from the moment of conception “through all stages of development.”
But our Governors, Legislators, and all levels of Alaska’s courts have excluded unborn children from those rights and protections in the case of abortion. In fact, Alaska’s courts have ruled against babies nearly 50 times, stripping away their equal opportunity rights, their equal protection rights, their rights to live, and even their right to be recognized as persons – as human children.
Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 by affirming that “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision…” Justice Alito continues in the Majority Opinion stating that “the right to regulate [abolish] abortion belongs to the people and their representatives.
Dobbs profoundly changed the legal landscape, cleared judicial obstacles, and opened a more direct route to protecting babies.
- Dobbs affirmed that there is no right to abortion in the US Constitution.
- Dobbs affirmed that the “right” to abortion cannot be inferred or interpreted.
- Dobbs eliminated the specter of pro-abortion judicial overreach that has haunted Pro-Lifers for 50 years: the right to abolish abortion “belongs to the people and their representatives.”
- Dobbs recognized and reinforced the Constitutional Authority and Duty to Abolish Abortion without judicial interference.
If we are to prevail; if we are to protect babies in the womb; if we are to establish, recognize, and protect their rights to live, to be free, to enjoy the liberties purchased for us by our Founding Fathers 250 years ago, we must fight on one more front, and wage war with our greatest legal weapon.
Therese Syren is a long-time pro-life advocate in Alaska who helped found a local sidewalk counseling outreach outside an Anchorage abortion clinic. She holds a Master’s Degree in Catholic Theology and a Pontifical Catechetical Diploma.
Pat Martin contributed artwork and historical/legal details.
