“There is no precedent for what the senator from Alabama is doing,” U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on the Senate floor, referring to Sen. Tommy Tuberville's freeze on all DOD civilian and military promotion nominees, including generals & admirals.
Tuberville said he told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III three months ago that “if he tried to turn the DOD into an abortion travel agency I would place a hold on all civilian, flag and general staff nominees.”
Austin signed a memo in October “designed to ensure that service members and their families can access reproductive health care and to support Department of Defense health care providers concerned about potential risks while providing federally authorized care.” “Following the Dobbs decision, women who are in states with restrictive abortion laws may have to travel to other states to receive reproductive health care, including abortion-related care,” Austin’s memo said.womenscaremedicalcenter.orgColorado lawmakers have raised that issue trying to keep the Space Command headquarters in their state. Alabama came out on top in the federal government’s own headquarters search with the command top office apparently heading to Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal.
“The DOD refused to answer questions or justify this policy for months last year,” Tuberville said on the Senate floor today. When the DOD did answer, Tuberville said, the memo was “exposed for what it really is, nothing but a political charade to please the Left.” If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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