Following October 2022 memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on “Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care,” the Department of Defense has released three official policies that “take a series of actions to ensure Service members and their families are able to access non-covered reproductive health care.”
These actions include policies to provide “administrative absence for non-covered reproductive health care” and “travel allowances for non-covered reproductive health care.” Essentially, the Biden administration is providing a taxpayer funded workaround to allow service members and their families to obtain non-covered abortions if they are stationed in a state where laws have been passed to protect the unborn.
While DoD still can’t use tax dollars to pay for the abortion procedures themselves (outside of existing allowances in the case of rape, incest, or pregnancies that threaten the life of the mother), the new policies mean taxpayers will be funding time off and travel to obtain abortions. Read more…