REPUBLICANS ADVANCE ABORTION FUNDING BUDGET

April 10, 2024 By Alaska Right to Life

REPUBLICANS ADVANCE ABORTION FUNDING BUDGET

In a stunning 39:1 vote yesterday, Republicans voted with the abortion lobby in the House to advance another abortion funding budget.

Those Republicans will tell you that there are as many reasons to advance the budget as there are pixels on the screen you’re reading this on.

There are likely just as many reasons to block advancement.

One reason stands out beyond all others: this budget – like every budget since at least 2006 – pays for babies to be killed. Here’s the basic abortion funding outline that nearly 20 years of budgeting have followed:

2001: Alaska’s Courts ordered the State to pay every abortion invoice submitted on behalf of a Medicaid recipient.

2002: Tony Knowles’ Attorney General wrote that abortion funding is a constitutional right no matter what the Legislature says or funds.

2006 to Present: Republicans objected by writing into every budget that they don’t like paying for babies to be killed. Republicans have not attempted to prohibit abortion funding since 2001.

2006 to Present: The Governor writes a budget proposal that assumes the State will pay for babies to be killed based on the 2001 court order and 2002 AG statement.

2006 to Present: Every AG has copied the 2002 abortion funding statement in reports to their respective governors.

2022: The Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health opinion was released after the 2023 Budget had been passed by the Legislature, but before Governor Dunleavy signed it into law.

2023: The Legislature overwhelmingly passed an abortion funding budget despite the Dobbs opinion clearly stating that there is no right to abortions or abortion funding in any US Constitution. Governor Dunleavy consequently signed that budget into law.

Alaskans have killed 3,076 of their own babies since the Dobbs opinion of 2022, and neither the Legislature nor the Governor have acted to enforce the Dobbs opinion within the State since then.

You and I were forced to pay for 1,308 of those babies’ deaths because our Legislature and Governor refuses to prohibit abortion funding in the budget, and by continuing to pay every murderous invoice that the abortion industry submits for payment.

CULPABILITY. Let’s take a break and talk a bit about who is responsible for those babies’ deaths.

Who contracted with the abortionists to kill those babies. Not you, I, or the Governor, or any Legislator.
Who brought the babies to the abortionists? Again, not you, I, the Governor, or any Legislator.
Who killed those babies? Not you, I, the Governor, or any Legislator.

But…

Who paid for those 1,308 babies to be killed? The State of Alaska paid for those killings.
Who decided (voted) to pay for those babies’ murders? Nearly every Alaskan Legislator.
Who signed that abortion funding budget into law? Governor Dunleavy.

730. In the coming days and weeks, Alaska’s Legislators will vote to pay for 730 babies’ deaths, or they will vote to prohibit the funding that makes those murders possible.

The 2025 Operating Budget assumes that approximately 730 babies’ deaths will be paid by Alaska’s Medicaid system. Approximately 525 of those murders will be committed here in Alaska, while an additional 205 babies will be carried Outside to be killed.

Depending on how our Legislators vote, you and I will pay for every one of those deaths.

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.

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From ‘SWATTING’ to Silencing: The Struggle Against Abortion Funding in Alaska’s Capitol

February 14, 2024 By Alaska Right to Life

From ‘SWATTING’ to Silencing: The Struggle Against Abortion Funding in Alaska’s Capitol

Many Alaskans are blissfully unaware of how intolerant the State Capitol building has grown toward conservatives in recent years. To be known as a conservative legislator or a conservative activist in Juneau is to have a target on your back. Sooner or later, that means being subjected to a politically motivated prosecution from the misnamed Legislative Ethics Committee.

Rep. Tammie Wilson of North Pole was targeted by the Ethics Committee when she served in the Legislature. Sen. Lora Reinbold of Eagle River was targeted. Rep. Christopher Kurka of Wasilla was targeted. And my staff and I were targeted as well. It wasn’t any better when I was a member of the Ethics Committee several years ago.

Setting aside its original purpose, the function of the Ethics Committee today is to censor what legislators can say, especially conservative legislators. In addition to policing more traditional forms of communication, the committee has lately decided that it should also be able to police what legislators say on social media as well.

Of the five permanent members of the committee, all of whom are appointed by the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, there is not a single Republican. Four are non-partisan, one is Democrat, and three of the five signed a petition to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy in 2019.

Often, just the threat of being hauled before the committee, even on the most dubious of accusations, is enough to convince legislators to steer clear of things they would otherwise say and do. Over time, policing what legislators are permitted to say results in a huge power disparity between legislators who have the option to simply let the liberal media or unions do their talking for them, and conservative legislators who usually do not have that option. But that is a topic for another day.

It was April 14. I led the House in the Pledge of Allegiance that day, and I introduced two guests who were visiting Juneau from the Mat-Su. All told, the introductions lasted less than twenty seconds.

When I was first elected, it was not uncommon for legislators to extend the courtesy of an introduction to anyone visiting the legislature from out of town, even candidates who had run against them in the last election. But that has begun to change. All guests are equal, but some conservatives are less equal than others.

I was told afterward that, during this briefest of introductions, I had crossed a line. A fellow legislator, Rep. Kevin McCabe, told me that I shouldn’t have done that. The guest I introduced was a political enemy of his. The message was clear: I should have joined others in cancelling him, not welcomed him to the Capitol.

Who was the guest? The oft reviled Pat Martin of Alaska Right to Life, who was in Juneau that day to deliver 5,000 signatures on a petition asking legislators to halt the state taxpayer funding of abortion. There are at least two things that today’s legislators are disinclined to do: Moving the capital and ending state funding of abortion both make the list.

Even so, both are popular issues that a majority of Alaskans have supported in the past and continue to support today. I suspect an activist roaming the halls of Juneau advocating to move the capitol would have been treated similarly. To be clear, I would have welcomed such a person to Juneau as well. But some legislators would prefer to make the capitol building a safe space, insulated from such dangerous ideas and those who advocate for them.

On April 14, one legislator’s office flat out refused to accept the 5,000 signatures. One responded by calling security and saying that Martin had been seen with a firearm in the capitol building.

Security responded. There was no firearm. It was a “swatting” incident, the first I am aware of in the state Capitol. All Alaskans are welcome to come to the capitol building, but some are more welcome than others.

Three weeks later, Rep. Christopher Kurka awoke to the news that an ethics complaint had been filed against him by Rep. McCabe for the political crime of welcoming Kevin’s political enemy, Pat Martin, into his office at the State Capitol Building. Seven minutes later, I received, word for word, the exact same complaint.

Until April 14, it was unheard of that someone would file an ethics complaint against you because they were offended at who you chose to meet with in your office at the capitol building. It was also unheard of that the ethics committee would ever allow themselves to be used to prosecute such a complaint. Not anymore.

Picture, for a moment, yourself as a legislator in Juneau. It’s April 14, you just spent your day debating and voting on eight different bills, ranging from bills to unionize childcare providers to bills dealing with various oil royalties. Immediately afterwards, you move to a committee hearing where you consider further bills, including a potential salary increase for state employees and a bill requiring legislative confirmation hearings for members of the Alaska Permanent Fund Board.

At 5:23 pm, the committee finally adjourns and you get to begin preparing for the next day, where you will take up a bill redefining the definition of rape in state law. As part of that bill, you will be hearing public testimony from rape victims whose assailants were never prosecuted because of the way the legislature defined rape in state law decades ago. That evening, you and your staff finally part ways to get some rest and begin the process anew the following day.

Three weeks later, you are informed by authorities that a fellow legislator has charged you with violating state ethics laws for your work that day. Instead of spending your day in committee and voting on bills, the legislator accuses you of spending most of the day in your office, with a political enemy of his no less. The kicker — and this is where the story takes a turn towards the incredible — the legislator who filed the charges wasn’t even in the capitol building that day. In fact, he missed the entire voting session that day because he was over a thousand miles away when it happened.

It seems like an open and shut case, right? Someone accuses you of spending most of the day in your office with someone they are publicly at odds with, and video from the day’s events shows that you were present for the entirety of that day’s protracted house floor session and the committee meeting that immediately followed it. Further, the written record shows that you were present for every vote taken that day, and it also shows that the person filing the charges was not.

But we don’t need to imagine this. This happened to two Mat-Su legislators. I was one of them.

These two complaints triggered an investigation and legal proceedings that lasted more than 18 months—all at state expense of course. I and the other legislator were of course obliged to hire attorneys to defend ourselves against the charges. The subsequent legal proceedings involved no less than four hearings and committee meetings, as well as numerous interviews over the 20-month period, between the legislator initiating the charges in April 2022 and the case finally being dismissed in December 2023.

Even after Rep. Kurka left office in January, rather than dismiss the complaint against him, the committee chose to continue the charade for another 11 months.

When Rep. Kurka and I were finally told that we were free to go in December, we had been obliged to spend more than $6,000 dollars in legal fees, and had invested hundreds of hours of time over the nearly two-year episode. Even in the very moment of dismissing the cases against us, the committee insisted on publicly criticizing both Rep. Kurka and I for the fact that we had each been unavailable during the height of our election campaigns. To add still further injury, we were told that the Ethics Committee considers legal representation a luxury. Accordingly, even after we were found innocent, we were told that the committee would not aid us in recovering any of our costs.

Alaskans are not able to recover any of their costs from these two cases either; the costs associated with the numerous committee hearings spanning nearly two years, the cost of the state hiring an investigator, the travel and per diem costs for each of the five public members of the committee, the time spent by at least six legislators who were involved in the case, and the time that our respective staff spent on these two cases instead of being able to engage with constituents. All told, it is quite the bill—and to think it was all triggered by a guest introduction lasting less than 20 seconds.

Rep. David Eastman is a Republican House member from Wasilla, House District 27.

This article was originally published on Must Read Alaska 2/14/2024.

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RTL ACTION Tilton Funds Abortion 202401

January 24, 2024 By Alaska Right to Life

REPRESENTATIVE CATHY TILTON (R) WASILLA / FAIRVIEW

abortion funding committees

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.

Urgent Need to Restructure the House Finance Committee for a Pro-Life Budget.

January 19, 2024 By Alaska Right to Life

50 YEARS TOO LONG

Urgent Need to Restructure the House Finance Committee

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

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:

The House Finance Committee essentially writes the Legislature’s budget after reviewing the Governor’s Budget Proposal.
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.

Dobbs Unfulfilled in Alaska

December 13, 2023 By Alaska Right to Life

THE PROMISE OF DOBBS

REMAINS UNFULFILLED IN ALASKA

The US Supreme Court affirmed in the Dobbs v Jackson opinion what we’ve been saying for over 50 years, that there has never been a constitutional right to abortion in either the Federal or any State Constitution.

In plain, simple English, the book – or the US Constitution – is closed to the idea that there can ever be a right to kill babies.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision…”

^{Majority Opinion, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, June 24, 2022}

The hope – the PROMISE of Dobbs is that it 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 made it clear that the “right” to abortion cannot be inferred or interpreted.
Dobbs gets rid of 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.”

The PROMISE of Dobbs recognized and reinforced the Constitutional Authority and Duty to Abolish Abortion without judicial interference.

Unfortunately, the PROMISE of Dobbs lies unfulfilled in Alaska. Ending abortion can seem just as elusive today as it was before Dobbs overruled Roe v Wade.

The PROMISE of Dobbs recognized and reinforced the Constitutional Authority and Duty to Abolish Abortion without judicial interference.

Unfortunately, the PROMISE of Dobbs lies unfulfilled in Alaska. Ending abortion can seem just as elusive today as it was before Dobbs overruled Roe v Wade.

Alaska’s activist courts and “abortion rights” legal precedents remain unchallenged even though Dobbs thoroughly dismantled every argument for a “right to abortion.”
Dobbs affirmed our Governor’s Constitutional authority to “restrain violations of constitutional… right[s] by any officer or… political subdivision,” but abortion continues unchecked.
Alaska’s Legislature has the authority to make laws and spend money. Dobbs affirmed the Legislature’s authority to prohibit funding abortions, paying for abortions, and to abolish abortion. For now, Alaska’s Legislature seems to be bound to Roe instead of the US and Alaskan Constitutions.

DOBBS UNFULFILLED

THE STATE OF ABORTION IN ALASKA

Planned Parenthood and their allies are working harder than ever to entrench abortion into every part of our lives.

While that sounds a little over the top, the numbers don’t lie. In addition to Planned Parenthood’s control over Alaska’s Courts, their advances in the Legislature, and in addition to their near total control over the budget process, Planned Parenthood is rapidly expanding their abortion business as well.

One of Planned Parenthood’s most significant expansions has been the RU-486 Chemical Abortion protocol. Planned Parenthood targets babies up to 9 weeks of life (13 weeks gestation) for Chemical Abortions.

CONCEPTION TO 9 WEEKS OF LIFE

Photo Credit: From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds, Alexander Tsiaras

Chemical Abortions are essentially a take home, Do-It-Yourself (DIY), or Self-Managed Abortion in which the baby’s mother takes two pills over the span of a couple days.

The first pill, Mifepristone, kills the baby over a grueling 48-hour period in which the baby is essentially starved, suffocated, and poisoned. The second pill, Misoprostol, initiates the excruciating contractions that will deliver his lifeless body.

602 babies were killed at home by Self-Managed Chemical Abortions in 2022

Nearly one half of Alaskan abortions are Self-Managed Chemical Abortions.

Planned Parenthood is increasing the number of nurses distributing Self Managed Chemical Abortion Kits.

Despite the significant increase in Self-Managed Chemical Abortions, surgical abortions are not going away. If anything, they are increasing – dramatically.

With earlier stage, Self-Managed Chemical Abortions being distributed by nurse-practitioner abortionists, it seems Planned Parenthood’s abortion physicians are expanding their 2^nd Trimester Dilation & Evacuation (D&E) Abortions to staggering levels.

HUMANITY OF LIFE IN THE WOMB

Photo Credit: From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds, Alexander Tsiaras

Sadly, most D&E abortions target babies between 10 and 20 weeks of life. Regardless of the baby’s age – from conception to natural end of life –God declared the sanctity of human life when He created man – male and female – in His image. Shedding innocent blood – murder – is condemned and prohibited from Genesis to Revelation 22.

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) Abortions have skyrocketed to 128 later term surgical abortions in the same period,

a 700% increase in 2^nd trimester surgical abortions.

I realize that none of this is easy to read. It might even be downright discouraging, but I’m not going to lie to you. The reality of abortion is horrifying.

Fulfilling the PROMISE of Dobbs – fighting to end abortion demands we know and share, and pursue the truth.

And the truth is ugly. Very ugly.

We live in a state where anyone convicted of murdering an unborn baby will be fined up to $500,000 and go to jail for up to 99 years, but we license abortionists to kill babies legally.

The only meaningful difference between somebody who will be fined and go to jail for killing an unborn baby, and somebody who the State will pay for the same crime is the abortionist’s license, contract, and the source of payment.

Perhaps one of the worst ironies of all is that abortionists must pass a criminal background check before they can start killing babies.

OUR HOPE IS IN GOD

NOT IN GOVERNMENT

But there is hope.

First, our hope is in God. And since He has made Himself abundantly clear on His purpose for government from Genesis through Revelation, We must not be silent.

In quick flyover fashion, let’s consider a few points regarding God’s purpose for government. These are certainly not exhaustive, but only serve the purpose of helping us understand legislation offered to protect innocent human life in the greater context of God’s design for government, chiefly to:

Protect innocent human life and punish murderers.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man.” Genesis 9:6

Administer justice by the wisdom of God.

When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice. 1 Kings 3:16

Bring God glory

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.” Romans 9:17

Worship God.

“Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; Take warning, O judges of the earth. Worship the LORD with reverence And rejoice with trembling. Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!” Psalm 2:10

Reward good behavior and punish evil.

rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Romans 13:3

Since God is not silent on His purpose for government, nor is He silent on the taking of innocent life, He has not left us without the means to protect children and reform our government: Dobbs is very clear: the Constitution does not recognize a “right to abortion.”

“Abortion rights” cannot exist in the US or Alaska’s Constitutions.
“Abortion rights” are not recognized by the Constitution.
“Abortion rights” cannot be inferred or interpreted from any part of the Constitution.

Babies waiting to be born have positive, expressly recognized rights to life, to equal protection, and equal justice. Dobbs removed the judicial obstacles that once prevented action and opened direct routes to protecting babies. The Constitution compels our Governor and Legislature to protect innocent human life.

With your support, we’re not waiting another 50 years for Alaska’s Courts to correct their deadly errors. Our call to action is simple and direct:

Alaska’s Governor is authorized – compelled – by the Constitution and affirmed by Dobbs to protect babies from being killed by abortion. While he has many options, the first, most direct action available for his administration is to refuse to pay for a single baby to be killed.

Yes, Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby will protest and sue. Isn’t that what we want – a direct challenge to Alaska’s pro-abortion precedents, armed with the Dobbs opinion that overruled Roe v Wade?

Yes, babies will be saved. If taxpayer money is what makes an abortion possible, then taking that money away from Planned Parenthood will save hundreds of babies’ lives.

Whether the Governor acts or not, the Legislature is armed with the Constitution and the Dobbs opinion and empowered to pass laws that protect innocent human life from conception to natural end of life.

This is how we start Fulfilling the PROMISE of Dobbs.

As “the people’s representatives,” Alaska’s Legislature is also authorized – compelled – by the Constitution and affirmed by Dobbs to make and pass budgets that prohibit funding and paying for babies to be killed.

But we do not stop there. The PROMISE of Dobbs is that every Alaskan baby deserves equal protection and equal justice. Dobbs is clear: the right to abolish abortion “belongs to the people and their representatives.”

With your support, this is how we Fulfill the PROMISE of Dobbs.

While Fulfilling the PROMISE of Dobbs relies on a political solution to the worsening problem of killing babies in Alaska, we are not limited to political solutions.

The problem of abortion is not limited to elections, laws, and courts.

FULFILLING THE PROMISE

BEYOND THE POLITICAL ARENA

Fulfilling the PROMISE of Dobbs and protecting children requires action beyond the political arena.

Alaska Right to Life’s work outside the political arena spans from Unalaska to Utqiagvik to Junea, and everywhere in between.

Alaska Right to Life spreads the Pro-Life message in churches, schools, at the State Fair, and we’ve even crashed a Planned Parenthood rally or two!

More than 10,000 people receive the Pro-Life message every year through thousands of flyers, brochures, books, and DVDs.

We collected more than 7,000 petition signatures and nearly 2,000 members joined the movement for the first time this year.

Alaska Right to Life invests tens of thousands of dollars and countless thousands of staff and volunteer hours into outreach activities all over the State, but nothing has the lifesaving impact like our work at Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities.

When two or more pro-lifers are outside Planned Parenthood, the abortion no-show rate increases by as much as 70% – many of those pregnant mothers never even park their cars!
When pregnant mothers learn that free, confidential, and completely nonjudgmental help is available, many pregnant mothers at least postpone their abortion appointments and explore their options and alternatives.
When pregnant mothers explore the free and confidential help and services we offer outside Planned Parenthood, many of them ultimately choose life for their babies.

Abortion appointment no-shows, postponements, and those life choices are made possible by faithful pro-lifers’ presence outside Planned Parenthood, reaching out to mothers struggling with unplanned pregnancies, and offering them the help and support they need to choose life for their babies.

God gave us a great victory after three years of faithful ministry in Soldotna by Alaska Right to Life members and friends. Planned Parenthood’s Soldotna facility was losing so much money that they closed their doors for good on May 31^st, 2022.

VICTORY

MAY 31, 2022 SOLDOTNA PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLOSED

As important as closing that Planned Parenthood was, the daily impact our Alaska Right to Life members and friends made was even more important in the lives of the babies and women that Planned Parenthood was trying to destroy.

This work is so important because even the most normal and routine difficulties in life are multiplied when the shock of an unplanned pregnancy hits. The fears, doubts, and pressures can be crushing.

When young mothers are alone in their most desperate moments, they’re vulnerable to Planned Parenthood’s lies and deceptions.

Mothers struggling with unplanned pregnancies shouldn’t be abandoned to struggle through their pregnancies alone.

And they won’t be.

When the baby’s father walks out, Pro-Life counselors step in.

When family and friends ostracize her for her unplanned pregnancy, Pro-Life Counselors approach, welcome, and protect her.

Ministry to pregnant mothers as they approach abortion facilities is one of the best ways to serve pregnant mothers and save their babies.

Serving mothers in their most desperate moments at the abortion facility has many benefits:

Pregnant mothers get the help and support they need to choose life for their babies and parent those children successfully.

Eight of ten pregnant mothers that meet with pro-life counselors choose life for their babies according to Pregnancy Resource Centers.

And when enough pregnant mothers choose life for their babies and cancel their abortion appointments, Planned Parenthood goes out of business and closes its doors. For good.

To repeat the victories we had in Soldotna – on a much larger scale – we need more than just volunteer time. Effective, continuous outreach that meets the challenges we’ll face in Anchorage requires dedicated, full-time leaders. The ministry must transition from part-time volunteers to full-time, paid leadership positions.

Your support will help us recruit, train, and deploy a small army of caring, loving counselors armed with resources for unplanned and crisis pregnancies, a broad support network, and most importantly, the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Your support today will help us continue our critical and lifesaving advocacy, legislative, and outreach work while adding this critical ministry that can save babies lives every day that pregnant mothers are lured to Planned Parenthood abortion facilities.

Will you consider making your very best one-time gift or a monthly contribution today?

Every dollar brings us closer to serving vulnerable mothers, protecting babies, seeing God put another Planned Parenthood out of business, and bringing an end to abortion in Alaska.

Your donation to Ministry and Outreach efforts in the GREEN section below is a tax-deductible donation that supports ministry to pregnant mothers at local abortion facilities as well as statewide education programs. Supporting our Ministry and Outreach efforts is a great option for end-of-year tax-deductible donations. You will receive a tax-deductible donation report at the end of the year for your taxes.

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Thank you for standing with Alaska Right to Life and defending life.

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Prohibit Abortion Funding and Spending by Alaska’s Government
Protect Children From Dangerous Abortion, Gender, and Sexual Indoctrination in Schools

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Republicans Vote To Fund Abortions

April 5, 2023 By Alaska Right to Life

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.