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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Joe Josephson, former AK senator and municipal charter commission member
Description: Send us Fan MailIn 1970 Alaska repealed its abortion law making abortion legal here three years prior to Roe vs Wade. One Alaskan senator who voted to legalize abortion – three separate times as he will point out -- was Joe Josephson. That same year he lost the democratic primary for the senate race to replace Bob Bartlett who had died in office; Republican Ted Stevens went on to win that election. Josephson started his career in politics in the late 1950s as a young staffer for territorial delegate Bob Bartlett (later US Senator); he was vice-mayor of the...