Gov. Dunleavy called for a vote on a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion in Alaska — one of several reactions from Alaska political figures in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision to remove federal protections for abortion access.
In Anchorage, a crowd of abortion rights supporters protested the Supreme Court ruling during a rally Friday evening at Town Square Park downtown. Carrying signs with slogans like “Abortion is health care” and “You can’t ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions,” rallygoers marched through downtown. At times they chanted, “My body, my choice!” and drew honks from drivers cruising by.
Savannah Chavez, center, chants alongside abortion rights rally participants as they stand on the corner of West Sixth Avenue and E Street in downtown Anchorage on Friday. Friday that it’s now “up to Congress to respond,” adding that she would make it a priority to “restore women’s freedom to control their own health decisions wherever they live.”
over her key votes to confirm two of the Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices who later backed the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.Her primary Republican opponent in this year’s election, Kelly Tshibaka, called the decision a “massive victory for millions of preborn children to come” in a social media“We mourn the tens of millions of innocent people who have been killed under Roe v. Wade,” Tshibaka said in a video posted to Twitter.
He said he planned to introduce a resolution in the next legislative session for a proposed constitutional amendment “to answer the question whether abortion shall, or not be a constitutionally protected right.”that “reproductive rights are fundamental, and that they are encompassed within the right to privacy expressed in article I, section 22 of the Alaska Constitution.
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