In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling.
This change stems from a Department of Justice legal opinion on December 18 that reinstated exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling that the Biden administration had removed in 2022. That Biden-era ruling expanded abortion access for veterans in cases of rape, incest, or threats to life and health, even in states with bans.
“Pregnant Veterans and VA beneficiaries deserve to have access to world-class reproductive care when they need it most,” Denis McDonough, Biden’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said in 2022, calling it “a patient safety decision.”
The new directive, obtained by Mother Jones, states that it won’t prohibit care to “pregnant women in life-threatening circumstances, including treatment for ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.” However, these exceptions often do not work. According to Jessica Valenti, a writer on feminism and politics, exceptions “are deliberately crafted to be impossible to use” and only exist “to make Republicans seem a little less punishing.”
Apparently he’d prefer it if you carried the baby to term and then threw it overboard in Lake Michigan
Well the Republican way is carrying the baby to term so that it becomes more meat for the machine, we need those disposable workers and consumption machines, not supporting the parents or baby after it’s born is part of the point
Yes, unless you’re Trump in 1984 apparently.
Oh I did not get that reference, thanks for sharing and fuck him
What’s the source for this? I know it came out of Epstein files, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Thanks!
It was posted here yesterday (I commented on it) but the post got taken down.
So they get raped in the line of duty by a fellow soldier and then they’re stuck with the baby
Yup, they care more about protecting their own than victims.
The heritage foundation are a bunch of gross quiverfull ogres.
They want won’t women out of the military anyways. The psychos in charge win regardless. The women who stay in or join will get to be concubines of senior staff. People like Drunk Pete. And those that leave or don’t join won’t be around to talk about dei and peace.
This admin really doesn’t give a shit about it’s own citizens
You’ve served our country with your body, now you can serve it a little more by using your body to pump out new soldiers for the meat grinder. Hoo-rah!
That’s rough cause he has been fucking them raw for months.
Years. Starting with his first term, he fucked the troops over every chance he got. That they support him so zealously is some absolute peak face-eating-leopard shit.
Generational trauma o7
And most of them will vote Republican again anyway.
