{"id":327730,"date":"2025-03-13T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327730"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:10:21","slug":"coast-guard-halting-funding-abortion-travel-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/coast-guard-halting-funding-abortion-travel-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard joins Navy in halting funding for abortion-related travel and leave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States Coast Guard has announced that it will no longer be funding abortion-related travel or leave, as the military looks to reverse a Biden-era policy requiring the Department of Defense (DOD) to pay for service members to have abortions. Just last week, the Navy made a similar announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the Pentagon said it would pay for<\/a> service members’ abortion-related travel. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stated that the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, along with pro-life laws in some states, would affect \u201creadiness, recruiting, and retention implications\u201d for the U.S. military. Therefore, service members and their defendants would be reimbursed for expenses incurred when seeking induced abortions to intentionally end the lives of their preborn children.<\/p>\n

After President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time in January, he issued<\/a> an executive order reinforcing the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal dollars from funding most abortions. As a result, the DOD released a memo confirming it would no longer fund abortion-related travel.<\/p>\n