{"id":1704634,"date":"2022-10-20T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704634"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:18:39","slug":"austin-defense-department-will-fund-travel-for-service-members-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-defense-department-will-fund-travel-for-service-members-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin: Defense Department Will Fund Travel For Service Member\u2019s Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-defense-department-will-fund-travel-for-service-members-abortions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Defense Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lloyd-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> announced on Thursday that the Defense Department would offer allowances for travel and transportation to service members seeking abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Austin delivered the news via a <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Oct\/20\/2003099747\/-1\/-1\/1\/MEMORANDUM-ENSURING-ACCESS-TO-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorandum<\/a> addressed to Senior Pentagon Leadership, Commanders of the Combatant Commands, and Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors, and he instructed them to make those allowances available along with additional privacy protections for individual service members.<\/p>\n<p>The Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-alito-claps-back-at-foreign-leaders-who-criticized-dobbs-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> has \u201creadiness, recruiting, and retention implications for the force,\u201d Austin\u2019s memo began, noting that a number of service members had voiced concern since the Court\u2019s decision was handed down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also recognize that recent developments may create legal and financial risk for our health care providers as they carry out their lawful federal duties,\u201d Austin continued.<\/p>\n<p>He then directed the department to allow service members up to 20 weeks to inform their chain of command of a pregnancy \u2014 unless their specific jobs presented a hazard necessitating earlier notification \u2014 saying that they should have enough time to discuss their reproductive health care choices within their own families before disclosing to their command.<\/p>\n<p>Austin also stated that, per this memorandum, health care providers could not inform service members\u2019 commands of their reproductive health status in most instances.<\/p>\n<p>Austin went on to address health care providers as well, directing the department to cover fees associated with obtaining licenses in different states to facilitate being able to perform abortions, if the states where they were previously licensed outlawed the procedure. That provision also included legal assistance for any providers in the DoD system who are subject to adverse action for performing abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the military is fairly well known for moving service members around the country from one duty station to another, Austin acknowledged that some moves would place service members in areas where they could not easily obtain certain services \u2014 namely abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Toward that end, he directed the department to provide for \u201cadministrative absence\u201d (leave time) and \u201cestablish travel and transportation allowances for service members and their dependents \u2026 to access non-covered reproductive health care that is unavailable within the local area of a service member\u2019s permanent duty station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin concluded with a promise to ensure that service members were educated about all of their available options with regard to reproductive health \u2014 and gave a deadline of \u201cno later than the end of this calendar year\u201d for the new policies to be implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Thursday that the Defense Department would offer allowances for travel and transportation to service members seeking abortions. Austin delivered the news via a memorandum addressed to Senior Pentagon Leadership, Commanders of the Combatant Commands, and Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors, and he instructed them to make those &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}