{"id":327325,"date":"2025-03-07T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327325"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:11:46","slug":"department-navy-fund-abortion-leave-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/department-navy-fund-abortion-leave-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of the Navy confirms it will no longer fund abortion-related leave or travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of the Navy announced<\/a> last week that it is no longer offering paid leave or travel reimbursements for service members to get abortions.<\/p>\n

The new Navy policy states that “taxpayer dollars will not be used to fund, promote, or reimburse Service Members of dependents for elective abortion-related travel expenses.” Other services, including<\/a> travel for “ovarian stimulation and egg retrieval, sperm collection and processing, intrauterine insemination, and in vitro fertilization,” will continue to be covered.<\/p>\n

In October 2022, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced<\/a> that the Pentagon would be paying travel expenses for military members and their dependents to get abortions. The move was seen as an attempt by the Biden administration to further expand abortion and circumvent the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal dollars from funding most abortions in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Following his election in January, President Trump took steps<\/a> to reverse the previous administration’s radical abortion stance, including issuing an executive order undoing Biden’s efforts to sidestep Hyde. As a result of Trump’s order, the Department of Defense announced in a\u00a0memo<\/a> that “it had officially struck the Biden-era abortion-related travel allowances, \u201c[i]n accordance with Executive Order, Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, January 24, 2025\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n