A new video has been created urging Alaskans to support an upcoming ballot initiative that requires abortion practitioners to notify at least one parent of a minor girl before they perform an abortion on the girl.
The new video was released on YouTube this month but supporters of Proposition 2 are working to raise the needed funds to air the message on television stations across the state in the lead up to the Aug. 24 vote.
Proposition 2, has support from the Catholic Church and many other religious organizations statewide. Alaskans For Parental Rights is organizing supporters of the ballot measure and has also created the television spot.
Planned Parenthood has drawn criticism for how it is helping to finance a now $600,000 campaign to persuade Alaska voters to oppose a ballot measure that would allow parents to know when their minor daughters are considering an abortion.
Alaskans for Parental Rights has filed a formal complaint with the Alaska Public Offices Commission against the Planned Parenthood-affiliated Alaskans Against Government Mandates for reportedly violating state law while campaigning against Ballot Measure 2.
On August 24, Alaskans will be voting on a citizens’ initiative – Ballot Measure 2 – that would legally require parents be notified before their minor daughter undergoes an abortion.
The Archdiocese of Anchorage has urged all Alaskans to vote “yes” on the ballot measure in August.
Those who are not yet registered to vote, however, must do so by Sunday, July 25.
For information on voter registration sites and hours or to update your voter status online visit: elections.alaska.gov/ei_primary.php For more information on the parental notice initiative, visit alaskansforparentalrights.org.
A workshop designed to help people manage chronic disease will begin soon in Anchorage. The program — “Better Choices, Better Health: Living Well Alaska” — will cover health information from diet advice to how to communicate with doctors. Individuals with diabetes, arthritis, COPD, depression and heart disease are especially welcome. Instructors will be parish nurses Pam Kyzer, RN and Elizabeth Blair, RN.
At Catholic Social Services, we witness the effects of generational poverty on a daily basis. These experiences along with the Catholic social teaching which calls us to family, community and participation are the driving forces behind our role in the HUGSS (Helping Us Give School Supplies) & Coats for Kids project.
A boy walks with a meal outside a relief camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 4. — CNS photo
By PATRICIA COLL FREEMAN
CatholicAnchor.org
The Archdiocese of Anchorage and people within the archdiocese’s borders have contributed almost $250,000 to Catholic humanitarian relief services for victims of a January earthquake that devastated the tiny Caribbean island nation of Haiti.
According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the bishops’ humanitarian relief agency, the Anchorage Archdiocese raised $183,657 in a nationwide special Sunday collection following the earthquake. Catholic Relief Services received an additional $64,853 from other groups and individuals within the archdiocese.
Was there anyone who wasn’t moved by Julia O’Malley’s riveting Alaska Daily News series on the young female heroin addict?
O’Malley’s writing was insightful, and Marc Lester’s photos were painfully intimate. Gut-wrenching was a way to describe the whole series. (adn.com/hooked)
It makes you realize there’s so much need for treatment and other services we aren’t providing.
The series led me to call my friend Petie Strang. For eight years, Petie has volunteered to be a Catholic presence at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River. If you remember the series, it was from this prison that O’Malley’s subject was released. It is Alaska’s dedicated facility for housing female prisoners.
I am fairly certain that most of us have had our differences with the law. The brilliant red and blue warning lights of a police cruiser in the rear view mirror will cast mortal fear in the hearts of any citizen.
I can remember, for instance, how a camping trip in Texas ended in near disaster for the simple act of crawling under a barbed wire fence and setting up a tent. Any Texan will tell you that it is an unwritten law — Do not cross fences without permission! Hence, armed with that knowledge, I ended up $75 leaner of pocket.
Providence Alaska Medical Center will host its annual burial service for unborn babies who were miscarried or stillborn or who died in ectopic pregnancies at the hospital across the year. Their cremated remains will be interred at the columbarium at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Wasilla Thursday, July 29 at 1:30 p.m.
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