Biden’s Big Bet on Military Abortions Falls Flat

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The Daily Signal

Connor Semelsberger

March 29, 2024

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, President Joe Biden has made it a top priority to use any and all administrative actions to promote and pay for abortions with taxpayer money.

No single related action garnered more attention than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s announcement that the Defense Department would use taxpayer funds to pay for abortion travel. Now, a new Pentagon report finds that the Biden administration’s abortion travel policy for service members and dependents was used only 12 times from June through December.

Defense Department officials admit, however, that they didn’t begin tracking travel under the year-old policy until August and weren’t able to gather any data from March through May.

Pentagon officials also explain that it’s not clear whether any of the 12 trips actually involved abortion, since the policy also may be used for other fertility-related health services.

And the reporting tracks only how many trips were taken from military installations to out-of-state destinations, not how many persons used the policy.

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