A friend reminded me years ago that “far too many of us have forgotten what an outrage abortion is.”
A nearly equal outrage is how we got to the point that Alaskans waiting to be born have no rights to speak of when their interests collide with an abortion-minded mother.
Prepare to be outraged just a bit more.
In a few short weeks – maybe less – the only major medical profession still barred from the abortion pill business may be the pharmacist at your local or chain pharmacy.
Just think: if Alaskans can order abortion pills by phone or internet, the most practical question is obvious: why wait days or even weeks for the abortion pills to arrive – why not just pick them up at the nearest pharmacy?
Right now, those barriers remain.
The 2024 Planned Parenthood – Advanced Practitioner Clinician (APC) opinion opened abortions to nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants. Thankfully, pharmacists were left out of that case.
Planned Parenthood is suing again – and likely to prevail – for their nurse practitioners and midwives to be able to mail abortion pills into rural Alaska after a phone or internet consult with a pregnant woman.
Alaska’s courts are expected to block the current “hospital/clinic only rule” in the next few weeks – or sooner.
But since Planned Parenthood doesn’t employ pharmacists, they are not suing for pharmacists’ rights to equal opportunity abortions (yes, that is really part of the case).
That’s why House Bill 195 matters so much.
It’s an Orwellian sort of equal protection that protects everybody involved in the killing except the one being killed.
HB 195 does legislatively what Planned Parenthood and the courts haven’t – and likely won’t.
Through a Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA), a pharmacist could prescribe, administer, and dispense abortion pills like mifepristone and misoprostol.
In plain English, HB 195 gives pharmacists a legal pathway into medical practices they could not otherwise provide on their own.
While HB 195 does not recognize or protect pharmacists’ equal opportunity and protection rights in the way Planned Parenthood’s lawsuits do for nurses and PAs, it allows them to share in the abortion business – and profits.
The new Alaska Equality: the abortion doctor has a right to perform it, the nurse has a right to prescribe it, the pharmacy has a right to dispense it, and the child has no right even to be noticed.
For the abortionist, the local pharmacy acts like the Amazon locker of abortion pills. The abortionist markets the abortion pills from virtually anywhere, and the local pharmacy serves as abortion-pill pickup hub.
Planned Parenthood won’t likely use the pharmacies because they have their own distribution system all figured out.
But independent or even out of state abortion doctors, nurses, and physician assistants may find the pharmacy fulfillment model attractive enough to form CPAs with willing pharmacies.
This is why HB 195 must not be treated as a harmless “pharmacy modernization” bill. It may have ordinary applications, but even ordinary laws can have extraordinary consequences – especially in a state where abortion policy has not been governed by the people’s representatives, but by activist judges and courts that have steadily removed one life-preserving protection after another.
In 1997 the Alaska Supreme Court created a “constitutional right to abortion.” In 2024, the state’s Superior Court expanded abortion authority to nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Now Planned Parenthood is asking the courts to remove the “hospital/clinic only” limitation for abortion pills.
In Alaska’s abortion doctrine of equal protection, the courts, pharmacies, legislature, and the entire abortion industry are all required to perform one great act of make-believe: to speak of abortion as though it occurs in an empty room, with no child at the center of it. But even on their own terms, an implanted pregnancy is not a legal abstraction. It is another living body. And a terminated pregnancy is not just a completed procedure, but another life destroyed.
If HB 195 is enacted now, then yet another protective barrier to abortion will fall.
With the “hospital/clinic only” rule blocked by the courts, a Collaborative Practice Agreement would allow an abortion doctor to bring a pharmacist into the abortion pill business as a partner in the CPA.
This isn’t modernization. It’s infrastructure.
And once the infrastructure is built, it won’t be conspiracy or theory for long.
Without Governor Dunleavy’s veto, Alaska will see abortion pill access move from two Planned Parenthood abortion sites to smartphones, mailboxes, and pharmacy counters.
The same places our families pick up antibiotics, insulin, baby formula, and diapers could become the next link in the abortion pill supply chain.
Alaskans must not accept that quietly.
Governor Dunleavy must veto HB 195.
If you believe children of all ages and stages of development deserve the same legal protections you and I enjoy, and that pharmacy law should not be a back door for abortion pill expansion, you should contact Governor Dunleavy immediately and urge him to veto HB 195 before June 17th.
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