A pro-family expert informed Anchorage's assembly that similar ordinances in Florida and New York earned those who passed them much legal trouble. The assembly went ahead anyway.
Alaska's Supreme Court ruled that the state couldn’t cut tax dollars to abortion. Republican Gov. Dunleavy then reduced the state judicial budget by the annual taxpayer price tag of elective abortions.
'The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to state-funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on state-funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court.'