Pentagon Will Pay for Service Members to Travel for Abortions: Defense Secretary

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to “ensure entree to reproductive wellness care” for its work members, including paying them to question to get an abortion. In an Oct. 20 memo to the department, Austin said that the Supreme Court judgement to overturn Roe v. Wade was creating difficulties for work members—forcing them to question greater distances, instrumentality much clip disconnected from work, and wage ...