The Alaska House of Representatives voted today to defund Medicaid abortion services despite court rulings requiring it:
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.
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