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PENTAGON TO PROVIDE TRAVEL ALLOWANCES FOR SERVICE MEMBERS WHO MUST TRAVEL OUT OF STATE FOR ABORTION
« on: October 21, 2022, 07:24:56 am »
  PENTAGON TO PROVIDE TRAVEL ALLOWANCES FOR SERVICE MEMBERS WHO MUST TRAVEL OUT OF STATE FOR ABORTIONS
October 20, 2022 ·Jenna Biter
 
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III briefs the press from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Washington, DC, Feb. 19, 2021. US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders.

The Defense Department will fund travel for service members and dependents seeking abortions if they are stationed in states where abortion is or becomes illegal, according to a Pentagon memo released Thursday, Oct. 20.

Signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the memo lays out guidance that military leaders should ensure access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June that overturned Roe v. Wade.

The memo directed leaders to:

https://www.coffeeordie.com/abortions-in-the-military
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Re: PENTAGON TO PROVIDE TRAVEL ALLOWANCES FOR SERVICE MEMBERS WHO MUST TRAVEL OUT OF STATE FOR ABOR
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2022, 07:26:41 am »
I thought it was against the law to use federal funds for abortions.  While travel isn't technically an abortion, it is aiding and abetting abortions. :shrug:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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