To the editor: Thank you, Sen. Murkowski, for pledging to protect Medicaid and Title X, the federal funding program that provides low-income Alaskans with access to birth control and basic, preventive reproductive health care like cancer screenings, wellness exams, and STI testing and treatment.
We, the undersigned Alaskans, ask you to oppose any attacks on abortion care, and to work with your colleagues and the other Alaska delegates in the House and Senate to do the same. The Hyde Amendment has kept Medicaid and other government insurance plans from covering most abortion care for nearly 50 years. Access to abortion is already increasingly challenging across the country, and Alaska only has two public providers of abortion left — the Planned Parenthood health centers in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Alaskans deserve access to lifesaving abortion care without any further barriers, and we hope the Alaska delegation will stand with the overwhelming majority of Alaskans who support access to this critical health care.
