{"id":1711052,"date":"2022-10-26T03:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711052"},"modified":"2022-10-26T03:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T07:18:33","slug":"department-of-defense-says-military-enlistment-wouldnt-be-so-low-if-women-could-just-kill-more-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-defense-says-military-enlistment-wouldnt-be-so-low-if-women-could-just-kill-more-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Defense Says Military Enlistment Wouldn\u2019t Be So Low If Women Could Just Kill More Babies"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fdepartment-of-defense-says-military-enlistment-wouldnt-be-so-low-if-women-could-just-kill-more-babies%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=1711052&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>The Department of Defense seems to be using the Supreme Court\u2019s overruling of <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>as an excuse to promote the Biden administration\u2019s abortion agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin\u2019s Oct. 20, 2022, memorandum, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Oct\/20\/2003099747\/-1\/-1\/1\/MEMORANDUM-ENSURING-ACCESS-TO-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care<\/a>,\u201d cites <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=10996775398954026979&#038;q=Dobbs+v+jackson+women%27s+health&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=6,45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>in directing the services to provide time off from duty and travel expenses for service members and dependents seeking abortions that are not available at their military medical treatment facility or the adjacent civilian community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Mischaracterizing <em>Dobbs<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The first sentence of the memo claims, \u201cthe ruling in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> has impacted access to reproductive health care with readiness, recruiting, and retention implications for the Force.\u201d This is an astounding claim, unsupported by facts, details, or supporting data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Dobbs, <\/em>which returned abortion regulation to the states, did change the regulatory landscape of the abortion industry. But the Department of Defense has not changed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3110807\/womens-health-care-in-dod-unchanged-by-supreme-court-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy<\/a> of providing abortions in military medical treatment facilities where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest or the life of the mother was in danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After <em>Dobbs,<\/em> a service member\u2019s access to off-post abortion services will vary based on their duty location. Some states, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/states.guttmacher.org\/policies\/california\/abortion-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California<\/a>, have permissive abortion laws. Others, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/states.guttmacher.org\/policies\/oklahoma\/abortion-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a>, ban virtually all abortions. But Austin\u2019s claim that <em>Dobbs <\/em>adversely affected \u201creproductive health care\u201d other than abortion seriously mischaracterizes the holding in <em>Dobbs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, <em>Dobbs<\/em> held that the Constitution does not protect a right to abortion. <em>Dobbs<\/em> did not address, much less restrict, hinder, or otherwise regulate \u201creproductive health care\u201d apart from abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second, after mischaracterizing the scope of <em>Dobbs<\/em>, the memo claims the decision has adverse implications for readiness, recruiting, and retention. Again, the memo provides no data, evidence, or details to support this astonishing claim.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of <em>Dobbs <\/em>returning abortion regulation to the states means service members and their dependents stationed in some states will have to travel to more permissive states to secure an abortion. That could affect some service members seeking to end the lives of their unborn children, but does it really affect readiness, recruiting, and retention, as Austin asserts?<\/p>\n<p> <em>Dobbs <\/em>Did Not Affect Recruiting <\/p>\n<p>Not according to an exhaustive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/07\/18\/numbers-game-inside-the-armys-end-strength-scramble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Army Times study<\/a> analyzing the Army\u2019s dismal recruiting efforts in 2022. The Army failed to meet its 2022 recruitment goals primarily because of economic factors, the general lack of fitness of American youth (only 23 percent meet the medical fitness standards), the effects of the pandemic, and Covid vaccination policies.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline of events also discredits Austin\u2019s claims. The Army Times<em> <\/em>analysis quoted the senior enlisted leader at Training &#038; Doctrine Command, CSM Daniel Hendrex, who said it was known by January 2022 that the recruiting mission was \u201cfacing difficult headwinds.\u201d That\u2019s when the service started increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/01\/12\/army-offers-recruits-up-to-50k-bonus-as-pandemic-takes-toll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recruitment bonuses<\/a> across the board.<\/p>\n<p>A draft of the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked on May 2<\/a>, and the final opinion was released on June 24, 2022, six months after the Army was well aware of the recruiting crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Defense leaders are blaming the Supreme Court&#8217;s Dobbs ruling for the military&#8217;s poor job at recruiting and readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":1711055,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1711052","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}