The American military is tasked with overseeing the protection of the U.S. homeland from both external and internal threats. So why is its leadership obsessed with forcing U.S. taxpayers to subsidize abortion?
In recent months, Pentagon leaders, congressional Democrats, and establishment Republicans have been attacking Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., over the latter’s protest of the Defense Department’s abortion policy, which uses taxpayer dollars to pay for service members’ travel expenses to obtain abortions. Rather than allow the Senate Armed Services Committee to confirm Biden’s military nominees en mass, Tuberville has forced the committee to vote on them one at a time.
The Alabama Republican has pledged to continue his protest until the Pentagon revokes the policy.
Tuberville’s critics have often — and baselessly — claimed that his stand is harming U.S. “national security” and “military readiness.” If that were true, then why aren’t they calling on the Defense Department to abandon its abortion policy, which, according to unofficial reports obtained by Tuberville’s office, show that only 12 service members have used it to date?
In case it wasn’t obvious to the leftists in the upper echelons of the Pentagon, there are much bigger issues implicating U.S. national security than forcing American taxpayers to bankroll abortions. Here are just a few of the things they should be focusing their time and energy on.
1. Protecting U.S. Troops Stationed Abroad
Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis, U.S. forces stationed throughout the Middle East have been under constant bombardment from
