Senate Democrats ask military to protect abortion access for service members<\/p>\n
Three-quarters of the Senate\u2019s Democrats sent a letter Monday urging Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to continue to protect access to abortion care for service members and their families and warning that restricting reproductive care harms national security.<\/p>\n
Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Defense chief slams Tuberville\u2019s hold on Pentagon nominees over abortion policy<\/p>\n Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said there will be \u201cpowerful effects\u201d on military readiness if Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) continues to hold up more than 150 Pentagon nominees over an abortion policy in the Defense Department.<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Not going to let our military be politicised,\u2019 says Republican delaying nominees over abortion<\/p>\n A Republican senator holding up more than 100 nominations over Pentagon policy on abortion claimed: \u201cI\u2019m not going to let our military be politicised.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n GOP rep tells defense chief \u2018you will lose\u2019 fight over abortion policy<\/p>\n Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday blasted a new abortion policy at the Pentagon in a heated exchange with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, telling the military chief he will \u201close\u201d a legal fight over the abortion rule.<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Democrats ask military to protect abortion access for service members Three-quarters of the Senate\u2019s Democrats sent a letter Monday urging Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to continue to protect access to abortion care for service members and their families and warning that restricting reproductive care harms national security. Read more at NBC News Defense chief … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}