SA13 would amend HB69, Alaska’s budget bill for fiscal year 2021-22, to prohibit Medicaid-covered abortions or services relating to abortion.
The Senate failed to pass SA13 on May 19, 2021, by a vote of 10 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Alaska should act to ban abortion (not to mention taxpayer-funded Medicaid services) and secure the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.