Senate panel hears bill aimed at easing birth control access

Sen. Berta Gardner addresses the Alaska Senate on April 7, 2014 . (Photo by Skip Gray/Gavel Alaska)
Representatives from Planned Parenthood, a union of current and former sex workers, small business owners and others testified on a bill that would require insurance companies to pay claims for women to get up to one year’s worth of contraception at a time.
The bill’s sponsor, Anchorage Senator Berta Gardner, told a state Senate committee Wednesday that she wanted to make it more conve