Pentagon won’t pay for servicemembers’ abortion travel

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America applauded the decision on Friday, thanking President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for putting it in motion. A U.S. Department of Defense memo on Wednesday said the Pentagon would no longer reimburse U.S. servicemembers for transportation, food, and hotel costs they incurred while traveling significant distances to obtain abortions. The DOD instituted the policy under the Biden administration shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson opinion.

Wasn’t Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., talking about this for a while? Sen. Tuberville on Friday praised Hegseth and Trump for making sure that no taxpayer dollars would go toward paying for abortions. He said he’d been fighting for years against what he called an illegal and immoral Pentagon policy of using taxpayer money to pay for servicemembers’ abortions. It was time for the military to focus on being a lethal fighting force, not pushing a political agenda, Tuberville said. Trump earlier this month signed an executive order revoking some executive orders Biden signed that used taxpayer funds to help pay for some abortions.

Dig deeper: Read Carolina Lumetta’s report in The Stew about Tuberville’s block on military promotions he put in place to protest the Pentagon’s policy of paying for abortion travel costs.