Support Sen. Tuberville Fight Against Radical DoD Abortion Policies

Tuberville Stands Strong!   Contact your senators and urge them to support Sen. Tuberville.  And while you’re at it, call Sen Tuberville’s office and THANK him for his courageous stand for LIFE!  (202-224-4124).  He has fought off EIGHT attempts by Democrats to keep killing babies in the DoD.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022, the Department of Defense claimed in a memorandum that the ruling would “have significant implications for…the readiness of the Force,” but provided no evidence to support this conclusion.

On July 15, 2022, Senator Tuberville and Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter calling on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to justify the assertion. The letter went unanswered.

On October 20, 2022, Secretary Austin released another memorandum outlining the Department’s intent to develop policies, procedures, and programs to expand taxpayer-subsided abortion in the military beyond what is allowed under federal statute.

On December 9, 2022, Senator Tuberville notified Secretary Austin that he would place a hold on Department of Defense nominees if the Department implemented this abortion plan, which goes even further beyond what is allowed in statute.

On February 16, 2023, Secretary Austin released another memorandum, this one announcing  the formal implementation of the abortion policy to fund travel and paid time off for service members and their dependents seeking an abortion.

On March 8, 2023, Senator Tuberville followed through with his pledge to hold all general and flag officer nominations on the Senate floor. Since then, Senator Tuberville has objected to Democrats’ attempts to break the hold eight times, repeatedly pointing out that the nominees could and should be approved by regular order.

Senator Tuberville’s hold forces the Senate to consider and vote on the nominations by regular order instead of approving them in batches by unanimous consent. The nominations can still be approved by the Senate, but the Majority Leader must make additional time for them to be considered on the floor.

The department’s authority to fund abortions is governed by 10 U.S.C. 1093, which limits abortions to cases of rape, incest, or pregnancies that threaten the life of the mother. These rules apply to both service members and their dependents. Given this provision, the DoD has averaged less than 20 abortions per year, with 91 abortions at DoD facilities occurring between 2016–2021. According to a third-party study, under the new policy, the number of abortions subsidized by taxpayers through the DoD could increase to 4,100 annually — 205 times the number of abortions performed last year.

See the full story, and video on Sen. Tuberville’s site.