(a) The department may not pay for abortion services under this chapter unless the abortion services are for a medically necessary abortion or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. Payment may not be made for an elective abortion.
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(b) In this section,
(1) “abortion” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 18.16.090;(2) “elective abortion” means an abortion that is not a medically necessary abortion;(3) “medically necessary abortion” means that, in a physician’s objective and reasonable professional judgment after considering medically relevant factors, an abortion must be performed to avoid a threat of serious risk to the life or physical health of a woman from continuation of the woman’s pregnancy;(4) “serious risk to the life or physical health” includes, but is not limited to, a serious risk to the pregnant woman of
(A) death; or(B) impairment of a major bodily function because of
(i) diabetes with acute metabolic derangement or severe end organ damage;(ii) renal disease that requires dialysis treatment;(iii) severe pre-eclampsia;(iv) eclampsia;(v) convulsions;(vi) status epilepticus;(vii) sickle cell anemia;(viii) severe congenital or acquired heart disease, class IV;(ix) pulmonary hypertension;(x) malignancy if pregnancy would prevent or limit treatment;(xi) kidney infection;(xii) congestive heart failure;(xiii) epilepsy;(xiv) seizures;(xv) coma;(xvi) severe infection exacerbated by pregnancy;(xvii) rupture of amniotic membranes;(xviii) advanced cervical dilation of more than six centimeters at less than 22 weeks gestation;(xix) cervical or cesarean section scar ectopic implantation;(xx) any pregnancy not implanted in the uterine cavity;(xxi) amniotic fluid embolus; or(xxii) another physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy that places the woman in danger of death or major bodily impairment if an abortion is not performed.
