The state of Alaska joined a federal lawsuit Friday that seeks to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of a pill used for abortions.
“Mifepristone has been proven to be safe and effective, and removing it potentially as an option is not about medicine or taking care of our communities — it’s just about power and control,” said Rose O’Hara-Jolley, director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates of Alaska.by the Alaska Constitution’s privacy clause and several Alaska Supreme Court rulings. But conservatives have long tested the limits of those protections.
“This is an issue for each state to determine,” said Patty Sullivan, a spokesperson for the department, about why the state had joined the lawsuit. She said the federal government should not try to subvert state laws. Dunleavy did say to legislators that “through the actions we’ll take together, when people ask, ‘Which of the 50 states values children and families the most from the moment of conception on?’ They’ll say ‘Alaska.’ ”this year so Alaskans could decide on the future of abortion in the state. The promised amendment has not been introduced and the governor’s office did not respond to a request asking if that is forthcoming.
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