Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, listens as Rep. Liz Snyder, D-Anchorage, speaks against a budget amendment on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in the Alaska House of Representatives. The amendment attempts to de-fund state funding for abortion services, and Vance had just finished delivering a speech in favor of the amendment. cut Alaska’s Medicaid budget by $350,000The vote is the latest in a yearslong series of attempts by Alaska legislators to cancel public funding for abortion services.
“I don’t really care if we have to run it through the courts a hundred times,” said Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake. The amendment came from Rep. Christopher Kurka, R-Wasilla. It was supported by all 18 members of the House’s Republican minority as well as independent Republican Rep. Sara Rasmussen, R-Anchorage. Majority Reps. Kelly Merrick, R-Anchorage and Josiah Patkotak, I-Utqiagvik, provided the 20th and 21st votes.
Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, argued in support of the amendment, saying she unexpectedly became pregnant at 23 and lived in denial until she heard her daughter’s heartbeat.
They LOOOOOOVE wasting taxpayer money.
Bizarre that they will pay for that but not birth control written by a planned parenthood dr. It happened to me. Ridiculous.
Seems reasonable to me. Taxpayers should not be held, against their will, to participate using their money.
there WILL be a lawsuit and the state WILL lose. what an egregious waste of taxpayer dollars.
Shameful
cool send them to jail
This is encouraging news.
Waste of our money
Hmm, I'm wondering how it's gonna look when Dan Sullivan starts whining about fetuses vs states rights. I'll miss Ole Don Young doing this too. Because you know Roe is coming up on our friendly SCOTUS docket soon. So, these asshats are just getting warmed up Alaska!
catsfaith Hello lawsuit 139262518 Goodbye state $$$$$$$$$
What’s the total dollar figure spent litigating these winless cases and paying damages?
Wasting time & losing lawsuits - love these “small government” republicans & the “consistency” of their “values”
Do you see these ppl in this picture 😂😂😂 they look like they eat babies
That’s funny cuz with how much they love losing court cases to Planned Parenthood it seems to me like they’re into giving them state money.
So its a bad symbolic vote only
It’s fine the education lvl will not be much different then the current generation of dipshits running things up here.
Every story is a bit different of people, so scrutiny needs attention, not simply feel good notions. And what will each state and governance do about furthering education towards decreasing unwanted pregnancies to begin ? Every story is different, it's not a generalized topic.
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What a mistake
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