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Military Will Provide Travel Allowances for Service Members Who Need to Travel to Obtain Abortions
Religion Clause ^ | 2/18/23 | Howard Friedman

Posted on 02/20/2023 5:54:17 PM PST by marshmallow

In a press release issued on Feb. 16, the Department of Defense announced that it has issued policy memoranda (full texts 1, 2, 3) that assure access to reproductive health care for service members.

Among other things, the policies will now allow service members to receive travel and transportation allowances if abortion or assisted reproduction services are not available in the local area. The health care services however are at the service member's own expense. Different policies apply to covered abortions, those where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; donatetofreerepublic; good; military; prolife; propp
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1 posted on 02/20/2023 5:54:17 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

We’re a sick country and the military has fallen


2 posted on 02/20/2023 6:02:03 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: marshmallow

Not much of a soldier if you are pregnant

Or post partum

Or menstruating

Or nursing a baby

Which is why women should not be in the military. Four reasons anyway. There are more


3 posted on 02/20/2023 6:02:32 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: marshmallow

One of the left’s major dreams is to force us to pay for abortion, sex-”change” operations and euthanasia.

They have made major progress.


4 posted on 02/20/2023 6:03:29 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: marshmallow

Thunder Dome healthcare: two people walk in, one walks out.


5 posted on 02/20/2023 6:04:23 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: marshmallow

Molech and Ashteroth are pleased.


6 posted on 02/20/2023 6:05:53 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: marshmallow

The US military is now in the US child killing business.


7 posted on 02/20/2023 6:09:05 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: marshmallow

Including a service member who is biologically male, insists he is female and says he is pregnant?


8 posted on 02/20/2023 6:09:41 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: marshmallow

Sickening.

If they’ve been jabbed….are pregnancy rates staying average?


9 posted on 02/20/2023 6:11:33 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: marshmallow

Idiocracy already exsts.


10 posted on 02/20/2023 6:14:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

Not much of a soldier if you are pregnant

Or post partum

Or menstruating

Or nursing a baby

Which is why women should not be in the military. Four reasons anyway. There are more


11 posted on 02/20/2023 6:17:22 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: marshmallow

So the 60s hippies were right. The American military is a bunch of baby killers. Geez. Now I really feel like a fool.


12 posted on 02/20/2023 6:27:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: marshmallow

Taxpayers SHOULD NOT fund this outrage!


13 posted on 02/20/2023 6:31:27 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“Including a service member who is biologically male, insists he is female and says he is pregnant?”

You biggot! How could they say no???


14 posted on 02/20/2023 6:40:51 PM PST by Dogbert41
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To: marshmallow
It’s not reproductive healthcare. It’s murder.

The military is really screwed up when it doesn’t know what murder is. Maybe that’s the reason we don’t win wars.

15 posted on 02/20/2023 7:11:27 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: JonPreston

The country has fallen.

The military and government bureaucracy is a reflection of our society.


16 posted on 02/20/2023 7:13:53 PM PST by Red6
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To: marshmallow
the policies will now allow service members to receive travel and transportation allowances if abortion or assisted reproduction services are not available in the local area.

For now. Then service pregnancies will flourish again when the next war starts.

17 posted on 02/20/2023 7:36:31 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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Yup.

1/3 of all the women in my division either became non-deployable or had to be sent home because of pregnancy.

That came out to >5% of total manpower since about 18% of the Army is female.

That’s a statistic the DoD won’t share or brag about.

In fact, we lost more combat power from women becoming pregnant and having to leave than from enemy activity in Iraq 2004 (when the insurgency was in full swing).

But all you read and saw in the MSM is IEDs and bla bla bla... Not how >5% of your entire personnel became USELESS because they simply got pregnant and frankly maybe they’re not even to blame for that (sort of natural for young people to have sex and make babies).

An issue that no one wants to touch, how most family care plans (dual service members) fail. Meaning both parents are in the service and need to deploy but they have young children.

Yet another issue that gets distorted, i.e. what is an inherent weakness and problem gets turned into a gender equality feminist battle cry: Female retention rates suck. Women tend to leave the service which means the that training and experience goes lost. But again, maybe this is natural since women tend to have children and their priorities in life tend to change at or about their late 20s - mid 30s.

I was a CPT in 2004. Thank God I didn’t need to worry about this since my unit was all male. Can you imagine having 105 men and 15 women in your company? All young people, for 18 months deployed...

Folks aren’t even realistic anymore. The problems we are creating can be suppressed when you have total superiority in numbers, technology, intelligence, logistics... When you have complete control. But a day will come where the bullshit can’t be brushed under the rug.


18 posted on 02/20/2023 7:37:39 PM PST by Red6
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To: Dogbert41

I can’t help it. I was born a bigot that thinks boys are boys and girls are girls.


19 posted on 02/20/2023 7:50:38 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: marshmallow

In the name of diversity, I’m sure the travel allowance would be allowed for men.


20 posted on 02/20/2023 8:46:40 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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