{"id":2023506,"date":"2023-09-06T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-an-easy-solution-if-the-pentagon-is-really-worried-about-national-security-stop-subsidizing-abortion\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:45:43","slug":"theres-an-easy-solution-if-the-pentagon-is-really-worried-about-national-security-stop-subsidizing-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-an-easy-solution-if-the-pentagon-is-really-worried-about-national-security-stop-subsidizing-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon&#8217;s Concern: National Security. Solution: End Abortion Subsidies."},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftheres-an-easy-solution-if-the-pentagon-is-really-worried-about-national-security-stop-subsidizing-abortion%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=2023506&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Is World War III\u2062 Imminent?<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><em>If Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville doesn\u2019t halt his\u200d protest of \u200cthe Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy, the United States could literally become engulfed \u200cin World War III.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds a bit melodramatic, doesn\u2019t \u2063it? Not according to Secretaries\u200b Carlos Del Toro (Navy), Frank Kendall (Air Force), and Christine Wormuth (Army), who all but said as much in \u2063their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/09\/04\/army-navy-air-force-secretaries-tuberville-military-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post opinion \u2063column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published \u2064on Monday, the 800-plus \u200cword screed is an obvious\u2062 attempt by\u200c President Biden\u2019s Defense Department to pressure Tuberville into abandoning his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/29\/democrats-hate-that-republicans-like-sen-tommy-tuberville-are-finally-doing-their-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protest<\/a> of the Pentagon\u2019s use\u200b of taxpayer money to cover service members\u2019 travel expenses\u2062 and paid time off to get abortions. Contrary to the narrative framed by the Biden administration and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-suppression-is-real-and-its-not-what-you-were-told\/\" title=\"Voter Suppression Is Real And It\u2019s Not What You Were Told\">legacy media allies<\/a>, Tuberville is not blocking\u200b votes,\u2064 but is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-military-at-risk-senate-army-confirmations-blocked-tuberville-12cd1bd126cc89a5e30a288d22476394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forcing<\/a> the Senate Armed Services \u2062Committee to vote on each nomination individually rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-air-force-nominee-claimed-white-colonels-are-the-biggest-barriers-to-change-in-the-military\/\" title=\"Biden's Air Force nominee blames 'white colonels' for hindering military progress.\">voting \u201cen masse<\/a> on large numbers of nominations.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2131461443\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2f96e74f367929b1f495116ed91abe23 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2f96e74f367929b1f495116ed91abe23\"><\/div>\n<h3>The \u200dSecretaries&#8217; Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout their\u200c column, the secretaries lament Tuberville\u2019s protest and claim he\u2019s \u201cputting [U.S.] national security at risk.\u201d\u200d If that\u2063 talking point sounds familiar,\u200c it\u2019s because it\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/09\/if-the-military-actually-cared-about-readiness-it-wouldnt-have-fired-members-for-refusing-an-experimental-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly parroted<\/a> by regime-approved media \u200band Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, to justify their\u200c attacks against Tuberville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus far, the hold has prevented the \u2063Defense Department from\u2063 placing almost 300\u200c of our \u2062most experienced\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-desantis-says-theyre-not-in-contact-with-ron-to-the-rescue-pac-amid-2024-speculation\/\" title=\"Team DeSantis Says They're Not in Contact With \"Ron to the Rescue\" PAC Amid 2024 Speculation\">battle-tested leaders<\/a> into\u00a0critical posts around \u2062the world,\u201d the secretaries wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, who could forget \u201cbattle-tested \u200dleaders\u201d such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/18\/biden-air-force-nominee-claimed-white-colonels-are-the-biggest-barriers-to-change-in-the-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Air Force Col. Benjamin Jonsson<\/a>, a Biden nominee who penned an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2020\/07\/01\/dear-white-colonel-we-must-address-our-blind-spots-around-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> weeks after George Floyd\u2019s death claiming\u2063 \u201cwhite colonels\u201d are the\u2062 \u201cbiggest barriers\u201d to addressing so-called \u201cracial injustice\u201d in the U.S. military? \u2064Or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/08\/bidens-pick-for-joint-chiefs-chair-made-diversity-and-inclusion-focal-points-in-air-force-personnel-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown<\/a>, another Biden nominee who happens to be a major proponent of neo-Marxist ideologies like what is euphemistically dubbed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?<\/p>\n<p>With leaders like \u2064this, China and Russia will surely be quaking in their \u2063boots!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cb7b2f0f4e48a82c601eabc33cef289e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cb7b2f0f4e48a82c601eabc33cef289e\"><\/div>\n<h3>The Unserious Column<\/h3>\n<p>Del \u2063Toro, Kendall, and Wormuth\u2019s attempt to feign concerns about \u201cnational security\u201d and the alleged effect Tuberville\u2019s protest is having on nominees and their families falls flat for a few reasons. \u200dFirst, at no point in\u2063 their article do they call on the Pentagon to abandon\u200b its abortion \u2062travel policy. In fact, the secretaries do the \u200dexact opposite by defending the policy and playing\u200d partisan word \u2063games by referring to abortion \u2014 the \u2062killing of an \u200dunborn child \u2014 merely as \u201creproductive health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the\u00a0Supreme\u2062 Court\u2019s decision\u00a0in <em>Dobbs\u2064 v. Jackson Women\u2019s \u2064Health Organization<\/em>, this policy \u200dis critical\u2064 and necessary to meet our obligations to the force,\u201d the secretaries \u200cwrote, citing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/d9\/2022-11\/2022-10-03-dod-abortion-transportation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a> by the Biden Department\u2063 of Justice \u2064(DOJ) declaring that \u200bthe policy is totally \u200dlegit.\u2063 Because as we all know, the DOJ \u2014 which has a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/01\/in-bidens-america-butchering-viable-babies-is-fine-but-protesting-their-murder-is-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/mark-houck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unlawfully targeting<\/a> pro-life activists \u2014 \u200bcan be trusted to tell us what\u2019s constitutional and what\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>Second,\u2064 the secretaries\u2019 column is unserious because of their invented claim\u2062 that\u200b Tuberville\u2019s protest \u200bwill have a \u201ccorrosive \u200beffect\u00a0on the \u200bforce\u201d by making other officers choose to leave the service. If that\u2019s the case,\u2063 then why did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/16\/exclusive-3000-military-veterans-reject-pentagons-left-wing-social-agenda-support-tubervilles-senate-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 3,000 military veterans and active-duty troops<\/a> sign a letter expressing support for Tuberville\u2019s actions and calling on the Pentagon to drop its abortion \u200btravel policy?<\/p>\n<p>The secretaries seem to believe the actions of a single senator could have such detrimental effects on military recruiting and\u200b retention, but not the DEI policies Biden\u2019s Pentagon is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/woke-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing<\/a> on service \u200dmembers right now. I\u2019ve written\u200b in these pages on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/21\/report-pentagon-to-make-entrance-exams-easier-amid-military-recruiting-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numerous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/12\/the-u-s-navys-personnel-crisis-is-only-getting-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">occasions<\/a> about \u2063the military\u2019s ongoing recruiting \u2064crisis and consistent failure to bring enough new talent into service. If\u200b these\u200c secretaries \u2063spent as much time worrying about their own branches\u2019 failures to meet existing recruitment targets instead of lashing out \u200dat Tuberville over his \u2062lawful protest, then maybe our military wouldn\u2019t be in such dire \u200cstraits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-48fe0f2a452fc6bba654b6ad3dc69161 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-48fe0f2a452fc6bba654b6ad3dc69161\"><\/div>\n<h3>The \u200bReal Motive<\/h3>\n<p>At the end of the day, the secretaries\u2019 alleged concerns about \u201cnational security\u201d \u2062and \u201cthe children!\u201d are \u2063not to\u2064 be taken seriously. If either of \u2064these \u200dthings were truly that important to the Pentagon, \u200dit would have dropped\u200d its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-an-easy-solution-if-the-pentagon-is-really-worried-about-national-security-stop-subsidizing-abortion\/\" title=\"Pentagon's Concern: National Security. Solution: End Abortion Subsidies.\">baby-killing policy months ago<\/a> when Tuberville first started his protest.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on \u2063Tuberville, however, have nothing to do with military readiness or the lives of U.S. service members and their families. It\u2019s about Democrats\u200b using any and every avenue and institution to advance\u200c the leftist cause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eaa1e09329bf8b4e37b2cafe8333fef8 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eaa1e09329bf8b4e37b2cafe8333fef8\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Sen. Tommy Tuberville continues protesting the Pentagon&#8217;s abortion policy, it could lead to World War III. Secretaries Del Toro, Kendall, and Wormuth strongly implied this, dismissing any notion of melodrama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2023507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2023506","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\/2023506","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}