Politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists have been lying about the bill’s affect on Mifepristone access.
Some simply don’t know enough about medical and pharmacy law to tell you the truth.
Others have been told the same lies – and believed them – that they are telling you. They just don’t know the difference.
Stay resolute in your opposition to the bill because it expands Chemical Abortion (Mifepristone) access.
THE SPIN
- Ashley Schaber, the current chair of the Alaska Board of Pharmacy asserted last week that, “more than a dozen other states allow pharmacists to provide direct patient care services under a standard of care model.”
Unfortunately, appealing to an approximate number of states that already do what Giessel, Mina, and the others are proposing does not assuage my concerns.
- Ms. Schaber, also asserted in her legislative presentation last week that the bills “do not allow pharmacists to prescribe or administer abortion medication.”
That is not only false, but it is in direct contrast to Senator Elvi Gray Jackson’s SB 147 comments last year: “…If somebody wanted to get an abortion inducing prescription, they could they still have the ability to go see their doctor, who will take the prescription to the pharmacist and it will be filled. I just wanted to make that statement on the record. “
“…If somebody wanted to get an abortion inducing prescription, they could they still have the ability to go see their doctor, who will take the prescription to the pharmacist and it will be filled. I just wanted to make that statement on the record.”
– Senator Elvi-Gray Jackson, Senate Co-Sponsor
Additionally, since the bills do not explicitly prohibit any abortion inducing drugs, it’s impossible to prohibit pharmacists from prescribing or administering them.
- Brandy Seignemartin, the Executive Director of the Alaska Pharmacy Association has argued that many times that pharmacists won’t prescribe beyond their training and education, the fact is that the bill(s) make it legal for pharmacists to dispense – and even prescribe – chemical abortions regardless of their training.
- Ms. Seignemartin has also asserted many times that the FDA REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) requires in person examinations, pregnancy tests, and even ultrasounds before Mifepristone can be prescribed.
That is patently false. The REMS was last updated by the Biden Administration in 2023, and allows Mifepristone to be prescribed through the 10th week of pregnancy without any in person exams, ultrasounds, or even the most basic follow up.
- Representative Mina – and others – are likely to argue that the bills don’t explicitly address Mifepristone – but they don’t have to, since Mifepristone is not a controlled substance to be regulated by the Pharmacy Board or this legislation.
- Representative Coulombe has argued that the bills:
- Don’t address abortion.
- That mifepristone can only be prescribed by physicians.
- That mifepristone can only be administered in a hospital.
The facts simply do not support any assertion that HB 195 / SB 147 are, or can be made safe for babies and their mothers.
Whatever other good these bills purport to do for Alaskans, no amount of pharmaceutical good outweighs the loss of babies’ lives and untold harm to mothers.
The only acceptable outcome for HB 195 / SB 147 is for the bills to ‘die in committee’ or be withdrawn by their sponsors Representative Mina or Senator Giessel.
Any other outcome either opens a door to statewide Mifepristone access, or leaves a crack that can be opened in the future.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists have been lying about the bill’s affect on Mifepristone access.
Some simply don’t know enough about medical and pharmacy law to tell you the truth.
Others have been told the same lies – and believed them – that they are telling you. They just don’t know the difference.
Stay resolute in your opposition to the bill because it expands Chemical Abortion (Mifepristone) access.
THE SPIN
- Ashley Schaber, the current chair of the Alaska Board of Pharmacy asserted last week that, “more than a dozen other states allow pharmacists to provide direct patient care services under a standard of care model.”
Unfortunately, appealing to an approximate number of states that already do what Giessel, Mina, and the others are proposing does not assuage my concerns.
- Ms. Schaber, also asserted in her legislative presentation last week that the bills “do not allow pharmacists to prescribe or administer abortion medication.”
That is not only false, but it is in direct contrast to Senator Elvi Gray Jackson’s SB 147 comments last year: “…If somebody wanted to get an abortion inducing prescription, they could they still have the ability to go see their doctor, who will take the prescription to the pharmacist and it will be filled. I just wanted to make that statement on the record. “
Additionally, since the bills do not explicitly prohibit any abortion inducing drugs, it’s impossible to prohibit pharmacists from prescribing or administering them.
- Brandy Seignemartin, the Executive Director of the Alaska Pharmacy Association has argued that many times that pharmacists won’t prescribe beyond their training and education, the fact is that the bill(s) make it legal for pharmacists to dispense – and even prescribe – chemical abortions regardless of their training.
- Ms. Seignemartin has also asserted many times that the FDA REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) requires in person examinations, pregnancy tests, and even ultrasounds before Mifepristone can be prescribed.
That is patently false. The REMS was last updated by the Biden Administration in 2023, and allows Mifepristone to be prescribed through the 10th week of pregnancy without any in person exams, ultrasounds, or even the most basic follow up.
- Representative Mina – and others – are likely to argue that the bills don’t explicitly address Mifepristone – but they don’t have to, since Mifepristone is not a controlled substance to be regulated by the Pharmacy Board or this legislation.
The facts simply do not support any assertion that HB 195 / SB 147 are, or can be made safe for babies and their mothers.
Whatever other good these bills purport to do for Alaskans, no amount of pharmaceutical good outweighs the loss of babies’ lives and untold harm to mothers.
The only acceptable outcome for HB 195 / SB 147 is for the bills to ‘die in committee’ or be withdrawn by their sponsors Representative Mina or Senator Giessel.
Any other outcome either opens a door to statewide Mifepristone access, or leaves a crack that can be opened in the future.
The facts simply do not support any assertion that HB 195 / SB 147 are, or can be made safe for babies and their mothers.
Whatever other good these bills purport to do for Alaskans, no amount of pharmaceutical good outweighs the loss of babies’ lives and untold harm to mothers.
The only acceptable outcome for HB 195 / SB 147 is for the bills to ‘die in committee’ or be withdrawn by their sponsors Representative Mina or Senator Giessel.
Any other outcome either opens a door to statewide Mifepristone access, or leaves a crack that can be opened in the future.
Chemical Abortions DOUBLED by 2024
In 2024, 720 babies were killed with Mifepristone/Misoprostol from just two abortion sites.
- 413 more babies died horrific deaths in 2024 than in 2019.
- 42 more mothers suffered from life-threatening complications in 2024 than in 2019.
Chemical Abortions doubled in five years because the Biden Administration made the pills more accessible, women are testing for pregnancies earlier, and the Chemical Abortion pills are perceived to be more ‘convenient than surgical abortions.
A Tidal Wave of Chemical Abortions
What started as a nightmarish 720 babies killed by Chemical Abortions from just 2 Abortion Sites in 2024 is about to become a tidal wave of abortions across Alaska.
Senate Bill 147 & House Bill 195 are companion bills marketed as pharmacy modernization bills that extend prescription authority to pharmacists that is currently limited to physicians, physician assistants, and some nurses.
The bills also expand pharmacies’ dispensing authority to certain controlled substances.
The RU-486 Mifepristone/Misoprostol Chemical Abortion Cocktail can only be prescribed and dispensed in clinical environments in Alaska.
If SB 147 / HB 195 become law, a pregnant mother any where in Alaska can complete a telehealth interview with a Planned Parenthood nurse (a 2024 lawsuit expanded chemical abortion prescriptions to physician assistants and some nurses) and have a prescription for Mifepristone/Misoprostol – a Chemical Abortion – sent to the nearest dispensing clinic or pharmacy.
If SB 147 / HB 195 become law, a pregnant mother any where in Alaska can complete a telehealth interview with a Planned Parenthood nurse (a 2024 lawsuit expanded chemical abortion prescriptions to physician assistants and some nurses) and have a prescription for Mifepristone/Misoprostol – a Chemical Abortion – sent to the nearest dispensing clinic or pharmacy.
That means a pregnant mother in Kwigillingok, King Salmon, Tok, and even Adak can perform a Do-It-Yourself / Self-Managed Chemical Abortion without leaving her city, town, or village.
HB 195 / SB 147 could legalize more than 300 Chemical Abortion prescription and distribution sites.
Planned Parenthood’s two abortion sites employ only a handful of doctors and nurses that can prescribe and dispense Mifepristone.
Compare that to more than 1,340 Advanced Practice RNs in Alaska that could prescribe and dispense Mifepristone.
Putting this in plain, black and white numbers: Two Planned Parenthood Abortion Sites prescribed and dispensed 720 Chemical Abortions in Alaska in 2024:
Anchorage Planned Parenthood = 540 Chemical Abortions (estimated).
Fairbanks Planned Parenthood = 180 Chemical Abortions (estimated).
What happens when the a telehealth nurse in New York sends a prescription to nearly any pharmacy pharmacy in Alaska?
What happens when Native Health Consortium doctors and nurses prescribe Mifepristone from an Indian Health Services (IHS) telehealth centers and send the prescription to nearly any village clinic to be picked up.
Planned Parenthood’s two abortion sites employ only a handful of doctors and nurses that can prescribe and dispense Mifepristone.
Compare that to more than 1,340 Advanced Practice RNs in Alaska that could prescribe and dispense Mifepristone.
Worse, there are more than 4,100 pharmacists and pharmacy techs working in more than 300 hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies that could either prescribe or dispense Chemical Abortions according to HB 195 / SB 147.
Worse still, tele-health abortion prescriptions are already available 24 hours / day.
Instead of going to a Planned Parenthood abortion site that’s open 9-5, Monday-Friday, what happens when a pregnant mother can access a tele-health abortionist 24/7/365, and go to the corner pharmacy or village clinic and pick up the Chemical Abortion pills?
Women outside of Anchorage or Fairbanks can go to a local clinic or pharmacy to pick up their abortion prescriptions – no more long drives to Anchorage or Fairbanks for long appointments “just” to pick up the pills.
Perhaps worst of all, Native women in rural Alaska can walk to the village clinic to pick up abortion prescriptions written by a Tribal Health or Native Hospital via tele-health nurse – no more long Medicaid funded trips to Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Seattle “just” to pick up two pills (Mifepristone & Misoprostol).
And off this while the demand for access to Mifepristone across Alaska is increasing every year.
The possibilities are chilling:
- 13 Rural Hospitals
- 30(+) Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- 50 Community Health Aide Program (CHAPS) Clinics
- 100(+) Sub-Regional Clinics
- 50(+) Corner pharmacies and in nearly every store across the state:
- 18 Carrs/Safeway
- 11 Fred Meyer
- 9 Walmart
- 4 Costco
- 4 Three Bears
- 4 Walgreens
How many babies will die when Chemical Abortion pills can be picked up at hundreds of clinics and pharmacies across Alaska?
Every DIY Chemical Abortion kills a baby. But the carnage is not limited to the children that die slow, excruciating deaths.
1 in 10 mothers suffers serious to life-threatening complications. In other words, more than 70* women went to the Hospital with serious and even life threatening complications after killing their babies with Chemical Abortions.
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) conducted the largest known study on Mifepristone last year based on six years’ of insurance claims data that includes 865,727 Mifepristone abortions. In Alaska, this means:
- 34 Emergency room visits or 4.73% of Alaskan women that have Chemical Abortions
- 24 Hemorrhage or 3.31%
- 20 Surgical abortions to complete botched Chemical Abortions or 2.84%
- 10 Infections or 1.34%
- 5 Hospitalizations or 0.66%
41 Other abortion-related complications or 5.68%
While Danco Laboratories markets Mifeprex (the market name) as “the safe and abortion pill,” Planned Parenthood tells the world that “it’s safer than Tylenol,” and the FDA approved it for use with almost no limitations, the EPPC study found that 10.93% women suffer sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection or other serious complications in the 45 days following a Chemical Abortion.
The EPPC Study makes it clear that in addition to claiming the life of a baby, every Mifepristone tablet – Chemical Abortion – will send nearly 11% of women that take the deadly chemical cocktail to the hospital – or even the morgue.
Every Chemical Abortion kills at least one person – a baby.
Ten Chemical Abortions ends in a serious or life-threatening trip to the Emergency Room – septic, bleeding, infected, or worse.
With the barriers to Mifepristone prescriptions virtually eliminated, the number of women accessing Chemical Abortions will skyrocket.
If the 50 retail pharmacies listed above dispensed just one Chemical Abortion per month, the carnage nearly DOUBLES:
600 MORE babies would die horrible deaths.
- 28 MORE Emergency room visits or 4.73%
- 20 MORE Hemorrhage or 3.31%
- 17 MORE Surgical abortions due to botched Chemical Abortions or 2.84%
- 8 MORE Infections or 1.34%
- 5 MORE Hospitalization or 0.66%
- 41 MORE abortion-related complications or 5.68%
There are also 193 hospitals, clinics and health centers that could prescribe and dispense Chemical Abortions across the state.
The number of babies killed by Chemical Abortions alone could reach into the thousands – and the number of women suffering serious and life-threatening adverse events could reach the hundreds!
What happens when a pregnant mother takes the Mifepristone to kill her baby in a remote town or village?
Will a boat, ferry, or plane get her to a distant hospital in time to save her life?
What happens when there is no Emergency Room?
What happens when there is no hospital?
What happens when there is no ambulance?
What happens when there is no help?
If a woman commits a Chemical Abortion where boat, ferry, or airplane ride separates her from life saving treatment, then what happens to the 1 in 10 that never make it to the E.R. or hospital?
The EPPC Study does not count deaths – and Big Abortion certainly won’t report abortion related deaths. Without access to hospitals, emergency rooms, blood transfusions, and D&C procedures, how many of those women won’t survive?
I know what you’re thinking: “why haven’t I heard of this before?”
You haven’t heard of this before simply because women in rural Alaska don’t commit Chemical Abortions in their towns and villages. That happens in Anchorage and Fairbanks right now.
But if HB 195 / SB 147 become law and they can pick up the Chemical Abortion kill-pills at a rural pharmacy or village clinic, how many more remote abortions will happen, how many more babies will die, and how many more women will suffer serious complications and possibly die because help is too far away?
But remember, this isn’t about “keeping abortion safe,” but about stopping an exponential increase of babies being killed – and the likelihood that many women will die as well.
This is about preventing a radical expansion of Chemical Abortions across Alaska.
This is about protecting desperate mothers and their babies from the predatory lies of Big Abortion and the politicians they employ in our Legislature.
This is about protecting thousands more babies from being murdered by Chemical Abortions every year.
Can it get worse?
Big Abortion wants this bill to pass.
Big Pharma really wants this bill to pass.
The have the votes in the House to pass HB 195 / SB 147.
They have the votes in the Senate to pass HB 195 / SB 147.
If all of that is not bad enough, we cannot count on the Governor to veto them when they do.
Without you and thousands like you, HB 195 / SB 147 will become law in 2026.
Pro – Abortion Democrats control the Senate with 6 Planned Parenthood abortion activists, 2 more pro-abortion democrats, at least 6 Republicans supporting the bills – and a binding caucus that commits majority members’ votes to bills they bring to the Senate Floor.
Planned Parenthood abortion activists control 17 seats in the House plus independents and shape shifting Republicans like Stutes – they already have enough to pass the bill without the three Republican votes (Ruffridge, Prax, and Schwanke) already on their side.
Without massive action, SB 147 & HB 195 will sail through the House and Senate next year.
Here’s the plan:
- Overwhelming Opposition. Senator Giessel and crew will either withdraw the bills or regret every vote on them in 2026.
- Stacks of petition boxes at the Capital steps and on every politicians’ desk.
- Thousands of electronic petitions to every politician in Juneau.
- Hundreds of thousands of emails flooding politicians’ inboxes.
- Thousands of phone calls, bringing the Legislature to a grinding halt.
- Statewide Campaign. Alaska Right to Life members have already sent in hundreds of petitions – and more come in every day.
- Printing flyers.
- Recruiting petition collectors.
- Developing the normal tools for a statewide campaign to defeat these bills.
- Local Action. To protect babies and their mothers from this deadly abortion expansion, we need to defeat these bills in their own districts– and hold their formerly pro-life representatives and senators accountable for advancing abortion expanding bills.
- Church / Pastor Education
- Town Hall engagement
- Literature Drops
- Petition Gathering at Local Events
- Candidate Recruitment
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