Alaska Right To Life | Ending Abortion in Alaska

LIFE AT CONCEPTION ACT ABORTION DEFINED

LIFE AT CONCEPTION

 

a·bor·tion

the death of a child as the result of action taken before or during
the birth of the child with the intent to cause the death of the child.

 

In every exchange of ideas, conversation, or even debate, defining terms is critical.  Scott Klusendorf of Life Training Institute (LTI) helps us understand the importance of defining terms when talking about children in the womb – what are they?

  • If they’re human, logic, justice, morality all tell us you can’t kill them.
  • If they’re not human, then there’s no reason to oppose killing them, by abortion or any other method or technique.

Abortion proponents have a long history of hiding behind euphemistic terms like ‘choice,’ ‘reproductive rights,’ and ‘women’s healthcare.’

It’s very dangerous to continue to leave abortion open to interpretation and manipulation, or even just undefined in the exchange of ideas, a debate, or especially in our laws.

 

Alaska Right to Life, bill sponsor House Representative David Eastman, Personhood Alliance, and a handful of abolitionists all worked together to define the legal aspects of abortion to provide maximum protection for children in the womb while protecting mothers that suffer pregnancies that end tragically through no fault or action of their own.

 

a·bor·tion

Current Alaska Statute, 18.16.090 defines abortion as

 

“the use or prescription of an instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, except that “abortion” does not include the termination of a pregnancy if done with the intent to
(A) save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;
(B) deliver the unborn child prematurely to preserve the health of both the pregnant woman and the woman’s child; or
(C) remove a dead unborn child;”

 

changes

the death of a child as the result of action taken before or during
the birth of the child with the intent to cause the death of the child.

 

  • CHILD focused. The purpose of abortion in both definitions is to kill the child in the womb.  However, the old statute refers to the benign “termination of pregnancy” instead of the more accurate death of a child.
  • ACTION  focused.  The death of the child is based on action taken in a more general sense so as to not allow loopholes for actions not described in previous definitions.
  • TIME focused.  Before or during birth makes it clear abortion kills children before or during their birth, a process by which a child leaves the womb.
  • INTENT focused.  To cause the death of the child.  Any action that intentionally kills a child before or during their birth is an abortion – and therefore illegal under The Life At Conception Act.

 

  • DEATH OF A CHILD.  Previous statutes defined abortion as the termination of a pregnancy.  The Life At Conception Act provides a more accurate description of the end result:  the death of a child.  Focusing on the child and the result – his death – prevents the law from being used for any intent other than protecting the child from being killed.
  • AN ACTION TAKEN. Previous definitions focused on more specific actions currently used or know of.  The broader action taken casts a wider net to eliminate actions not described but that kill children as well as those that aren’t currently in practice or even known of.
  • BEFORE OR DURING BIRTH THE BIRTH OF A CHILD.  Reinforcing the focus on the child instead of the woman known to be pregnant prevents the law to be construed as being designed to protect pregnant women.
    • Lawyers in Roe v Wade referred to Texas statute reference to the pregnant woman to make the claim that anti-abortion laws were written to protect the woman and not the child.
  • WITH THE INTENT.  Intent is critical in most law, and especially here.  Actions taken with the intent to preserve the health and life of the child are removed from the definition of abortion.  Likewise, any action taken against a child before or during his birth with the intent to kill him is included in the definition of abortion and is prohibited by the Life At Conception Act.
  • INTENT TO CAUSE THE DEATH OF THE CHILD.  Intent is critical in most law, and especially here.  Any action taken against a child before or during birth with the intent to kill him is included in the definition of abortion and is prohibited by the Life At Conception Act.

 

Actions taken with the intent to preserve the health and life of the child are not included in the definition of abortion.  Likewise, actions taken to preserve the life of his mother – without the intent to kill the child – are not included in the definition of abortion.

 

intent

The goal – or intent – of the Life At Conception Act with respect to abortion is to prohibit all actions taken with the intent of killing children before or during their birth.

Health and medical difficulties that result in a child’s death without the intent of killing the child are excluded from this definition of abortion and are logically and obviously not prohibited by The Life At Conception Act.

 

The LIFE At Conception Act

The end of abortion in Alaska

 

The LIFE At Conception Act is a comprehensive bill that eliminates legalized child killing in Alaska from the moment of conception without exception to the child’s age, level of development, disability, sex, nature of conception, or any other distinguishing characteristic.

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

  • Eliminates abortion access from the right to privacy, as found in 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 the 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.
  • Creates 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.