After so much insanity this weekend, a little justice shines through in Alaska.

From Sean Cockerham of the ADN:

The new state attorney general has found a ballot initiative essentially seeking to outlaw abortion in Alaska to be unconstitutional.

“The proposed bill meets the ‘clearly unconstitutional’ standard because it would supersede a woman’s constitutional right to privacy,” said the opinion, which was released late yesterday. “This right is a federal constitutional right recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.”

Attorney General John Burns is recommending the lieutenant governor refuse to certify the "Natural Right to Life" initiative.

Th proposal tries to make it Alaska law that “the natural right to life and body of the unborn child supersedes the statutory right of the mother to consent to the injury or death of her unborn child.”
The main sponsor is Clinton Desjarlais of Anchorage. He had another initiative rejected as unconstitutional this summer that tried to say “an abortion may not be permitted in this state.”

Gee I wonder how the Grizzled Mama feels about her poodle Sean Parnell now that he has appointed an Attorney General with some integrity?

By he way historically Alaska has always been fairly liberal about a woman's right to choose.  In fact the state made access to abortions legal three years before Roe vs Wade. It has only been since the bible thumpers and conservatives came up here to chase the oil money that we have seen such backward thinking and attempts to oppress women's right to choose.