Rep. David Eastman, apparently attempting to show the hypocrisy of pro-abortionists, is in trouble again. This time, he has created a kerfuffle in the House Judiciary Committee, where he implied that abused children might be better off dead. He was trying to make a point, but it was lost on the audience.
The left and mainstream media willfully misunderstood his statement, but he is not being defended by just about anyone in the Capitol. Eastman has few, if any, friends in the Legislature. His ally during the last two sessions was former Rep. Chris Kurka, who did not run for reelection in 2022, but instead made a failed bid for governor.
Rep. Jesse Sumner, a Republican of Mat-Su Valley District 6, wrote of Eastman’s latest comments on the record, “I think they’re atrocious, and he should not be a legislator.”
Sen. Scott Kawasaki, a Democrat from Fairbanks, is ready to throw Eastman out: “I voted to censure Republican Rep. David Eastman for implying rural Alaskan women get abortion for ‘free’ travel [in 2017]. After I became a Senator I respected the rule of autonomy/separation of the bodies when it came to expulsion for disloyalty to the Constitutional oath.”
But he then wrote, “Representative Eastman has got to go. Period. After his latest national headline comments about economic benefits of the death of a child of abuse. I would hope that the House censure him for this statement and then remove him from office.”
Eastman said he had heard the theory that the silver lining for abused children dying are that “because “there aren’t needs for government services over the course of that child’s life.” Many abortion proponents make the same argument that disabled fetuses should be aborted for that “burden to society” reason, but Eastman’s comments were not understood by his critics in that context.
Must Read Alaska has invited Eastman to explain his intentions with that comment, inviting him to write a column to put his words in context.
Eastman is not in any caucus in the Legislature. The House Republican caucus did not invite him to be a member. The representative from Wasilla has routinely upset the Left with his remarks, including when he famously said that some women in rural Alaska used their pregnancies as an opportunity to come into Anchorage to get an abortion, a comment that garnered him national media coverage.
House Democrats tried, but failed, to expel him from the Legislature over that remark, made in 2017.
Eastman also drew attention from the Left/mainstream media, when he went to Washington, D.C. on Jan 6, 2021, to hear President Donald Trump speak. An attempt in court to overthrow his election failed last year in court and with voters.
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