Alaskan candidates running for governor in 2026 are presented below in alphabetical order. Click on a candidate’s name to see their answer to the highlighted question below. Several candidates chose not to participate.
The Alaska Supreme Court has blocked nearly every pro-life law ever passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor, thereby ensuring that Alaska remains one of the most pro-abortion states in the country. Given this reality, share two concrete actions you will take as the state’s chief executive to help protect unborn babies.
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TOM BEGICH [D]
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CLICK BISHOP [R]
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DAVE BRONSON [R]
First, I will prioritize real, on-the-ground support for women and families by strengthening pregnancy resource centers across Alaska. This includes directing state and federal funds to organizations that provide counseling, prenatal care, material support, and alternatives to abortion. We will also expand adoption and foster care services and invest in early intervention, ensuring no woman or couple feels out of options.
Second, I will work with the Legislature to place a constitutional amendment before voters clarifying that nothing in the Alaska Constitution creates a right to abortion. The Alaska Supreme Court has relied on a misinterpreted reading of the privacy clause, and the people of Alaska should get to decide.
Finally, I will use my authority to advance a culture of life by appointing judges who interpret the Constitution as written and defending all life-affirming laws. Protecting the unborn and supporting mothers must go hand- in- hand.
MATT CLAMAN [D]
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ADAM CRUM [R]
Two concrete actions to protect unborn babies – I will do two concrete things as Governor to protect unborn babies, despite the Alaska Supreme Court’s record of striking down pro‑life laws. First, I will establish an Office of Unborn Advocacy in the Governor’s Office. This office will be tasked with giving unborn children a permanent voice in state government, coordinating policy, litigation strategy, agency rulemaking, and legislative drafting so that Alaska pushes every lawful protection to the maximum extent allowed under current precedent. Second, I will fully deploy the executive tools I control – appointments, budget, litigation posture, and public communications. I will appoint pro‑life leadership at Law and Health, defend every reasonable protection in court, prioritize funding and partnerships for life‑affirming services, and openly advocate for a constitutional amendment clarifying there is no state constitutional right to abortion.
NANCY DAHLSTROM [R]
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EDNA DEVRIES [R]
Abortion remains legal in Alaska at all stages of pregnancy, and the strongest protection comes from the Alaska Constitution, not federal law. The Alaska Supreme Court has repeatedly held that reproductive choice is a fundamental privacy right under Article I, Section 22, which means the Legislature cannot impose the kinds of bans or restrictions seen in many other states.
Any major change would require either a constitutional amendment or a reversal by the Alaska Supreme Court. Another place where the court system is ruling over the wishes of the citizens of Alaska. I was a Valley Hospital Board member when we brought the Valley Hospital abortion lawsuit. Valley Hospital v. Mat‑Su Coalition for Choice (1997) is the landmark Alaska Supreme Court case that first held the Alaska Constitution’s privacy clause protects the right to abortion. God has to intervene and show us a path forward to save babies in the State of Alaska.
MEDA DEWITT [NON/IND]
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JESSICA FAIRCLOTH [NON/IND]
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MATT HEILALA [R]
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SHELLEY HUGHES [R]
Of our unalienable rights, first among them is life. The right to life is the foundation of every other right. When government fails to protect the most vulnerable, it betrays the very purpose for which it exists.
The Alaska Supreme Court has repeatedly overturned pro-life laws, which is why I authored SJR 4 – the constitutional amendment that clearly states: nothing in our Constitution creates a right to abortion or requires the state to fund one. Considering the state of our judiciary, this would be a long-term fix. Two concrete actions I’d take as your governor: I will appoint an Attorney General who will vigorously defend every pro-life law and will challenge court rulings that stretch beyond the Constitution’s original meaning. I will use the full weight of the executive branch to expand crisis pregnancy centers, adoption services, and maternal health programs, zeroing out state funding that flows to abortion providers.
JONATHAN KREISS-TOMKINS [D]
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HENRY F. “HANK” KROLL [R]
I would appoint new conservative members to the Supreme Court who are against killing babies. There are clinics, fire stations and adoption centers in Anchorage, Soldotna, Fairbanks and other cities. There is no excuse for killing babies.
JAMES PARKIN [R]
For too long, we’ve relied on the blunt instrument of the law while ignoring the battlefield of the heart. As your leader, I will deploy state funds to launch a Life-Victory Task Force with a singular, ironclad mandate: make abortion obsolete by making it the inferior choice.
We will dismantle the “necessity” of abortion by providing superior, taxpayer-backed alternatives – from elite medical care and childcare to robust social and emotional support systems. We will pioneer adoption models that return total control to the mother, ensuring she is the architect of her child’s future.
If we make choosing life the most financially, socially, and intellectually sound decision, abortion will be exposed for what it is: a barbaric relic of the past. Laws can be bypassed, but a culture of life is inescapable. We will out-compete the industry of death and ensure that, in our state, life is the only rational choice.
TREG TAYLOR [R]
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BRUCE WALDEN [R]
I have written extensively about my thinking on abortion. I can easily defend my side of the argument using God’s Word. I can just as easily defend my side using science. The first thing we have to decide is whether the taking of innocent life is evil. It can be nothing but evil. Then we have to decide where life begins. Where there is life, there is growth; where there is growth, there is life. Where there is no life, there is no growth, and where there is no growth, there is no life. I’ve yet to see a woman give birth to anything besides a living human being. Therefore, the taking of that life can be classified as nothing short of murder. I would stand on this and simply tell the Alaska Supreme Court (we’ll be looking very deeply into them). “Thanks for your opinion, but I disagree.”
BERNADETTE WILSON [R]
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2 Comments
Bronson is Dunleavys clone! Remember that!!! And don’t forget that Dunleavy is “ prolife!!! Edna states that in Alaska abortion is still happening at all stages! This is Dunleavys legacy and will continue to be the same under Bronson!!!
Again if these candidates can’t or won’t answer these questions.
Then they should NEVER get your vote, end of story.
It’s my body, Wrong it’s Gods little child inside you. What if your mother aborted you?