‘The government owns your body’: What abortion access now looks like for the military
The Pentagon says abortion services will continue as before for the military community. But a group of senators demand that more is done to protect service members seeking care.
July 8, 2022, 6:00 a.m. ET
Her phone kept pinging with text messages that read: “The day is here.”
Allison Gill, a 48-year-old disabled veteran, was working from home that morning and knew exactly what had happened: The Supreme Court announced its decision overturning Roe v. Wade — which upheld for nearly 50 years the right to an abortion.
“There was a sense of anxiety and panic, not for myself but for everyone,” said Gill, who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder connected with military sexual trauma. She told The 19th she couldn’t help but think about all of the military women who are in the same situation she faced decades ago – pregnant and unable to obtain an abortion on base.
https://19thnews.org/2022/07/abortion-access-military-service-members/
