Thu Dec 15, 2022 – 3:02 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has pledged to put a hold on all Defense Department nominations over its leadership’s decision to pay leave and travel expenses for troops’ abortions.
“I warned them ‘if you do this, I will hold up every nomination, civilian and flagship officer until you explain to me or retract this policy,’” Tuberville, who serves on the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, told Just the News.
“The one thing a senator can do is stop the wheel from turning, and I hate to do it. But they are not allowed, according to the constitution, to change this law themselves without running it through Congress,” Tuberville added.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a memo in October in response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, directing the Department of Defense (DOD) to “establish travel and transportation allowances” for “non-covered” abortions, both for “Service members and their dependents,” when they are “unavailable within the local area of a Service member’s permanent duty station.”
Austin also ordered the DOD to make room in its policy for administrative leave for “non-covered” abortions, and called for a program to
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