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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directs Defense Department to pay for service members' travel for abortions

This summer, Reuters reported that state abortion “bans” (which apparently includes a limit on when an abortion can be performed) were forcing some students to rethink their college plans. Would a high-school senior really want to attend college in a state where there’s a 15-week limit on abortions?

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And what about the military? What if the Pentagon stations you in a state where there’s a heartbeat law on the books? Don’t worry, says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — the Defense Department will pay for you to travel to a state where you can get that abortion. The Pentagon won’t pay for the procedure itself though, so there’s some personal responsibility at play here.

Politico reports:

The “practical effects of recent changes” will ultimately hurt military readiness, Austin wrote, referring to the Supreme Court’s June decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Austin noted that “significant numbers” of service members and their families will be forced to travel, take time off work, and pay more out of pocket to receive reproductive 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,” he wrote.

It sounds like corporations that will happily pay for employees’ abortions — then you can get them back to work the next day.

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Yep.

https://twitter.com/PrichardSteve50/status/1583172496794144768

https://twitter.com/JimDandyMD/status/1583180329569103873

Yes.

We have to agree. It’s a mystery why they’re having such a hard time recruiting.

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Nope … they’re stopping short of violating the Hyde Amendment and making the service member pay for the abortion procedure themselves, though they certainly would pay if they could.

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