{"id":281647,"date":"2022-12-15T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=281647"},"modified":"2022-12-14T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T23:50:02","slug":"senator-threatens-block-defense-confirmations-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senator-threatens-block-defense-confirmations-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator threatens to block Defense confirmations if Pentagon subsidizes more abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., warned the Pentagon last Friday that he would block all civilian Defense Department nominations if it implemented a recently announced policy for funding travel for its employees\u2019 abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuberville is a member of the Armed Services Committee, which approves DoD nominees. His letter warned that the DoD\u2019s new policy \u2013 outlined in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Oct\/20\/2003099747\/-1\/-1\/1\/MEMORANDUM-ENSURING-ACCESS-TO-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE.PDF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 30 memo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 would illegally increase the number of department-subsidized abortions to as many as 4,100 per year from 20 per year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Existing law allows DoD to fund or provide abortions in cases of rape, incest, or pregnancies that threaten the mother\u2019s life. 10 U.S. Code \u00a7 1093 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/1093\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cFunds available to the Department of Defense may not be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in a case in which the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>URGENT:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has indicated he will extend support to cover travel expenses after the decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur Service members and their families are often required to travel or move to meet our staffing, operational, and training requirements,\u201d he wrote in the memo, titled \u201cEnsuring Access to Reproductive Health Care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSuch moves should not limit their access to reproductive health care,\u201d he added. \u201cThe practical effects of recent changes are that significant numbers of Service members and their families may be forced to travel greater distances, take more time off from work, and pay more out of pocket expenses to receive reproductive health care. In my judgment, such effects qualify as unusual, extraordinary, hardship, or emergency circumstances for Service members and their dependents and will interfere with our ability to recruit, retain, and maintain the readiness of a highly qualified force.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuberville noted that Austin\u2019s new policy would cover families, meaning that the senator\u2019s estimate of 4,100 abortions is likely undercounting the true number that will be supported by the Pentagon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that the policy would force taxpayers to fund abortions even if they had rejected the procedure in their own state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs six states and the District of Columbia have no abortion restrictions, your policy would force taxpayers to finance access to abortions without protections other states have duly enacted such as waiting periods and prohibitions on late-term abortions,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLike me, many Americans find abortions morally repugnant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s unclear how Tuberville\u2019s threats will ultimately impact the DoD\u2019s nominating process, which has reportedly encountered substantial roadblocks. The Alabama senator had placed a separate hold in order to compel DoD to brief him on their implementation of their abortion policy, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insidedefense.com\/insider\/tuberville-lifts-hold-dod-nominees-threatens-block-future-picks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside Defense reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That briefing occurred last week, prompting Tuberville\u2019s letter on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/12\/06\/senator-vows-hold-on-military-nominees-over-pentagon-abortion-policy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DefenseNews<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at least nine DoD nominees are awaiting a full chamber vote. Nominations for two assistant secretaries of defense are currently pending before the committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides Tuberville, Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and James Lankford of Oklahoma reportedly threatened to block defense nominees over Afghanistan and mandatory vaccines respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., warned the Pentagon last Friday that he would block all civilian Defense Department nominations if it implemented a recently announced policy for funding travel for its employees\u2019 abortions. Tuberville is a member of the Armed Services Committee, which approves DoD nominees. His letter warned that the DoD\u2019s new policy \u2013 outlined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":281691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senator threatens to block Defense confirmations if Pentagon subsidizes more abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sen. 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