Dwelling Republicans are launching a new probe into what they say is the Pentagon’s final decision to apply “pro-abortion” travel procedures for its staff.
In a Thursday letter to Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, 29 Republican associates of the Dwelling Armed Provider Committee expressed concern that the Section was being made use of as a “political resource” by the Biden administration to “placate the far still left” when it arrived to abortion, and to argue that its new policy to protect specified expenses relevant to abortions for company customers and their family members was unlawful.
A DoD memorandum issued on Feb. 16 entitled, “Administrative Absence for Non-Protected Reproductive Health Treatment,” outlined the Department’s new policy to allow for services members and their families covered journey expenditures and paid time off to obtain abortions.
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“This new directive is a distinct violation of the legislative intent expressed in 10 U.S.C. §1093 and associated legislation,” the letter examine. “This badly drafted established of insurance policies also produces a potential world wide web of federally-sanctioned violations of point out guidelines, significantly with regard to obtain to abortion providers by dependent kids.”
“Members of this Committee are committed to guaranteeing that company members obtain the most effective health and fitness treatment doable, but paying out for vacation and go away to terminate pregnancies is not health care. Fairly, it is redirection of American taxpayer bucks for impermissible purposes,” it added.
The letter demanded a response from Austin by Mar. 7, and pressured that the committee would stand up to the Biden administration in opposition to any try “to use the armed forces as an experiment to lengthen its professional-abortion agenda.”
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U.S. Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin attends a push convention right after a assembly of the Ukraine Defence Speak to Group at the U.S. military’s Ramstein air foundation on September 08, 2022 in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany. (Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Illustrations or photos)
In a assertion to Fox News Digital, Rep. Jim Banking institutions, R-Ind., a member of the committee, ripped the Biden administration for prioritizing progressive politics more than national safety.
“This is a distinct violation of the Hyde modification and a number of other legislation prohibiting DoD funding of abortion. The Biden DoD has proven once more and again that it will put abortion, CRT, local climate alter and all kinds of considerably remaining politics forward of its nationwide safety mission. I will in no way stop preventing versus the Biden administration’s assaults on the unborn,” he mentioned.
The new DoD policy seems to be the newest attempt by the Biden administration to grow obtain to abortion considering that the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade past calendar year. The administration has also been signaling its willingness to declare a general public wellbeing crisis to deal with what some pro-abortion groups have identified as a overall health disaster in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., does a tv interview in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. (Monthly bill Clark/CQ Roll Simply call)
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When attained for comment, the Pentagon informed Fox News Electronic it would be “inappropriate” to remark on congressional correspondence and that the Section would answer to the sender directly.
