While the pro-Convention side has emphasized putting the PFD in the constitution as the top motivation, those opposed to the convention also see abortion rights as an issue at stake. From AlaskaBeacon
Former Rep. Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau, holds a sign opposing a constitutional convention during an abortion-rights rally on Saturday, June 25, 2022, outside the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau, Alaska.
Susan Orlansky, an attorney in Alaska since 1980, gave her view on why that is. She has represented abortion rights advocates in Alaska lawsuit. ConventionYes, a group of conservative Alaskans, organized Stop the Steal rallies around the state on Sept. 20 – the day the state started distributing the dividend.
“It’s not at all about making abortion illegal as now … it is in some states; it’s simply clarifying the neutrality of the state constitution,” he said. “We believe that the court has manufactured a right to abortion because there’s just simply no language whatsoever in the constitution to the privacy clause that obtains a right to abortion. And so we would just want that to be clarified so that then the people can make that decision as a state rather than unelected judges,” he said.
Bird said personhood, which he views as from conception to natural death, should be defined by elected representatives, instead of judges. “I would say that pro-lifers understand very well that the Judicial Council is a tool that can help restore human rights to the preborn,” Bird said. Not only would they lose the anti-abortion fight, Alaska could lose its constitution, Coghill said. At a convention, delegates have what’s called plenary power, or as Coghill put it, the whole constitution is on the table and open for discussion. That means it could be totally rewritten.
“If I’m being honest, I am, I believe that if everyone truly understands what a constitutional convention would mean for abortion access, for LGBTQ rights, for labor rights, for public education, I think then, it’s very obvious to everyone that causing that instability and so many places and all of our lives is not worth the risk,” they said.
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