The state legislator continues to practice medicine without a state license and they want the Alaska Medical Board to support their medical law that they crafted which is not their job to give or offer advice on. The question already has an answer and it is simple, women can give birth at home and are not required by any state law to be in a certain vicinity of a medical facility complete with surgical unit and neo-natal unit. There are many pregnant women a home who give birth and they far out number any women who is considering an abortion at Planned Parenthood. I knew a mom last week who did a home bah tub birth with a mid-wife, no doctor and 24 miles from the hospital.  This full term pregnant woman can make such a risky choice in this state and it is just another birth choice that women have. So they get to choose where they give birth and some don't even have a mid-wife but a woman planning an abortion does not in this state have the same choice and that is discriminatory.