The New Defense Pentagon has set a policy of the Biden administration, according to new notes, to cover the travel expenses of service members and their dependents who need to cross the state line to receive abortions and other reproductive care.
The change that became effective on Tuesday was soIt was announced in a memo Posted by a defense trip management office on Wednesday.
This is the latest Trump administration's actions that intend to scrub the Social Policy in the Biden era, which claims that critics defend the country as diverting the army.
Former President Biden must travel out of the state, which was stationed under the former Lloyd Austin Defense Secretary of Lloyd Austin in early 2023 to provide paid leave and to receive abortion and other reproductive care. A policy has been set to refund the army and dependents.
Such access is ROEV of the Supreme Court. Even if the abortion was significantly reduced following the reversal of Wade, it was provided so that the unit could safely receive healthcare that needed to be.
The Biden administration has pointed out the legal memo of the Ministry of Defense in October 2022, and the law “has not prohibited the use of funds to pay the costs, such as the daily allowance associated with abortion and travel expenses.” Was stated.
However, the opposition of the Republican party attacked policies as a omission to avoid federal law, which hinders the use of taxpayers for abortion.
As a result, Senator Tommy Tuburville (R-ALA) has been maintaining a non-political promotion for nearly a year to protest policy. He argued that it was a violation of Hyde revision to spending federal funds for abortion. However, this correction allows funds to save rape, incest, or to save patients' lives.
But last week, Trump issued a presidential order in seeking to close such a missing hole.
Pentagon's actions were immediately accused of members, including Senator Jeanne Shahen (DN.H.).
“This decision is to deprive the service members who access the necessary reproxative care. This is nothing but abominable.” “It is contrary to the core goal of the Pentagon. Our troops are always ready to ensure the health and happiness of all service members, protect Americans, and keep this country safer. I will do it.
The members of the Diet cannot control the location where the US service members are stationed and that the state law may govern their body, and to take a travel policy “to promote the military preparation. I don't do anything. “
This letter sends a message to a woman who is already facing the issue of hiring and holding, and a woman who constitutes 17 % of the U.S. military “not as value as a male counter part”. I have added it.
