By SUZANNE DOWNING
April 11, 1026 – As Planned Parenthood reports record abortion numbers and record taxpayer funding nationally, Alaska lawmakers are considering legislation that would expand access to abortion drugs by allowing pharmacists to prescribe them, at the same time Planned Parenthood has reduced its physical presence in the state.
House Bill 195, scheduled for consideration in the House Finance Committee on Monday, would authorize Alaska pharmacists to prescribe and dispense abortion-inducing medications directly to patients. The measure effectively shifts abortion services that were provided by Planned Parenthood into retail pharmacies, while supporters argue it expands access, particularly in rural areas.
Abortion-by-pharmacist bill heads to House Finance for Monday
The proposal comes as Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows the organization performed 434,450 abortions, the highest number in its history, during the period from October 2023 through September 2024. That represents an increase of more than 32,000 abortions from the prior year and a 34% increase since 2014. The vast majority of those abortions are now done by chemicals women take to induce a miscarriage.
The same report shows Planned Parenthood received a record $832 million in taxpayer funding, an increase of $39.8 million from the previous year. Government reimbursements and grants accounted for roughly 38–39% of the organization’s $2.143 billion in total revenue.
The funding covered a period before the July 2025 passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which restricted certain federal Medicaid reimbursements to abortion-providing organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
Despite the increase in abortions nationally, Planned Parenthood’s physical footprint in Alaska has shrunk in recent years.
The Juneau Planned Parenthood Health Center closed permanently in November 2024 after initially shutting down for building repairs. The Soldotna clinic closed at the end of May 2022, and the Sitka location closed more than a decade ago.
As of early 2026, only two Planned Parenthood locations remain in Alaska: clinics in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
The reduction in clinics comes as medication abortions, typically involving mifepristone and misoprostol, have become a larger share of abortion services nationally. Planned Parenthood has previously stated that roughly 70% of its abortions are medication-based, and the organization reported more than 320,000 telehealth appointments in its latest report.
HB 195 would allow pharmacists to prescribe those same medications without a physician examination. It would effectively shift abortion services from clinics to pharmacies.
The proposal is being debated as national abortion totals have risen following the 2022 Dobbs decision. Estimates place US abortions in the range of roughly 1.1 million annually in recent years, with Planned Parenthood accounting for a significant share.
13 thoughts on “Planned Parenthood reports record abortions nationwide, as Alaska bill would expand abortion pills through pharmacies”
The replacement rate in our country is 1.6- far from the 2.1 to just sustain our population. This is THE existential crisis we face. All the focus ought to go to solving this. Open borders is not the answer leftists. Culture is fundamental not yet another theoretical social construct. This is why chasing empire and war is not the answer neocons. One way or another this problem will be solved. Let us solve it rather then it be solved for us.
Our birth rate is crashing while abortions are souring. Abortion pills are deadly to not only babies, but to mothers too, landing 1 in 9 to the ER for hemorrhaging and sepsis.
Abortion pills are ordered by mail with no oversight of dosages or reporting of side effects. Theres no way to determine the age of the unborn baby since there’s no ultrasound. The older the baby, the more risks to the mother. Hemorrhaging can kill a woman within an hour or less in some circumstances, which is extremely dangerous for rural women taking these pills. Overall, its a form of genocide when a society allows the murder of women and children. There’s noone protecting them, there’s no reporting, there’s no one that cares.
434,450 abortions…
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If the populations of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the Holy Party City of Juneau were nothing but dead babies ,,,still can’t get to 434,450.
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Yet we so self-righteously dump on our Canadian neighbors for their Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) law.
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Seems kind of risky, going to meet your Maker with nothing on your résumé except you got $2.143 billion for killing babies and selling aborted fetal tissue.
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We so self righteously get mad at drug dealers for selling drugs that kill kids, yet our Ruling Class make it okay for their drug dealers to sell drugs that kill babies.
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Food for thought, no?
Some people will Never see the Light and this life will be our last time to see their faces. We see our legislators today, but I reminded myself I might not see them EVER again when I depart this world. I may never hear their names again because they went to hell. No one is getting out of this world alive. We all have our appointed times.
This deep sadness in this thought and there is also a peace and comfort that people who complicated our lives who stole from us who hated us who despised us that there is a comfort knowing the wicked will be cut off from the righteous and they no longer can abuse, manipulate, confuse, and exploit and take advantage of us just like a vapor they will be no more of them on any part of the earth one day.
This scripture is comfort that Alaskans will not remember its own leaders currently living here today especially if they are bent toward evil like this verse
“Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.” The warning to such men is Ecclesiastes 8:6-13
Because a the sentence against an evil deed is not immediately executed, it’s why these guys just continue going on as unlearned men and unlearned women continuing in their wickedness. That’s why some Christians who are also unlearned ask why do evil men and women seem to go unpunished for Years and lifetimes. Well there is the answer. Their punishment will be sentenced in their graves.
I really hope the Legislature amends this bill to expressly close the loophole on abortion drugs, even if it seems redundant to existing state law restricting abortion procedure who/where/when. Allowing pharmacists to prescribe simple antibiotics and other basic life-saving medications would be great for Alaskans struggling with the rising costs of medical care. The administration of miscarriage-inducing drugs is a very serious, life changing decision that should not simply happen over the counter after a 5 minute conversation with a pharmacist. Alaska, we can do better.
The problem with lawmakers is they have NEVER had to accompany a girlfriend, a wife, a daughter, a granddaughter, a female friend to an emergency room because of before taking the pill she under estimated the gestation period of her baby meaning she was too far along
Another thing getting this into the hands of rural Alaska girls and women is risky with high expenses knowing they don’t have ER’s and surgery rooms in villages with more advanced medical equipment that a girl who is needing emergency surgeries will need a helicopter transport to the neared urban center while she is in critical condition even near death
Next Saturday, one week from today, the Alaska March for Life starts at Anchorage Lutheran Church downtown at noon. We need to FILL THE STREETS!
Correction! The Alaska March for Life is TWO weeks from today, on April 25th. A little ahead of myself…..
Metrics of this sort would mean far more in every state if there was some way to tease out factoids regarding how many women were on SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, etc. Adverse selections are an important component and consideration whenever and wherever demographics are combined with governmental policy – especially from a fiscal conservative’s perspective.
King James Bible
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
King James Bible
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Such Apostasy!
Could we assume a large percentage of those abortions would have been future democrat voters?
“I have noticed that all those who are in favor of abortion have already been born.” – Ronald Reagan
Lord, HOW LONG???
I have to drive past the Fairbanks PPC frequently as part of my work – the employee with an attitude nonchalantly struts across the parking lot and slings a bag clearly marked with the biohazard symbol into the dumpster – the angry grandfather white-knuckling his steering wheel, eyes ready to kill – the disinterested father smoking a joint drumming his fingers irritated that he has to deal with a “problem”. I don’t see the women – they are hidden from view, protected by the propaganda signs on the clinic door.
I can only just cry… and pray.