Doctors from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will be banned from performing Abortioneven in the case of rape and incest, Proposed rules Depend on Trump administration.
The draft regulations also prohibit providers from consulting female veterans who terminate pregnancy Nearly 20,000 comments Many of them are survivors of sexual assault in the federal register of conservative activists, abortion rights supporters, and female veterans.
“I’m a veteran, a mother, and abortion saved my life.” Write Mary Dodson-Otten, a 41-year-old nurse and Air Force veteran, lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.
Dodson-Otten told Guardian that she ended her pregnancy in her 20s after she was pregnant by an abused boyfriend. Without an abortion, she said, “I don’t think I’m going to be spared, whether it’s him or I hurt me.”
Rules proposed Trump administration There is an exception that allows abortion to occur “when the doctor proves that if the fetus is sent to the deadline, the mother’s life will be threatened.” But abortion rights advocates say the exception is too limited.
Former U.S. Army Captain Caitlin Russell predicts that women will die,” he has toured twice in Afghanistan and studied female veteran health at the University of Pennsylvania.
The exceptions would force “a woman to lie on a hospital bed until that woman is on the door of death”, she said, citing women’s high-profile cases dying After states with strict abortion ban refused to miscarriage.
Sexual assault remains local in the military. About one-third of women and 50 men answeredYesWhen their VA provider asks if they are forced to wear uniforms, they endure sexual behavior against their will. Two-thirds of women Veteran.
VA researchers also have Established One in three female veterans experienced intimate partner violence, a rate far higher than women who have never served in the military.
Rita Graham, former U.S. Army Artillery Officer, Director of Research Service Female Action Network (Swan) said the rules are “unsafe, cruel, and deprive us of the military community of the right to make our own health care decisions.
“We fight for our freedom and deserve the health care that comes with it,” she said.
Abortion availability is relatively new at VA. Since 2022, the Supreme Court terminated the federal government’s right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health after the agency provided them with only limited circumstances with policy changes implemented by the Biden administration.
Virginia Press Secretary Peter Kasperowicz Law of 1992 The agency is prohibited from providing abortion “this is “except” for care that increases the risk of complications associated with complex pregnancy or through service-related conditions.
Legal experts say the law has been replaced. They noticed that it also prohibits VA from providing Infertility and Pregnancy Carethe agency continues to provide.
VA also describes the change as a matter of patient safety, claiming that since the 2022 Policy was in place, VA has implemented the “frequency” of the procedure, which adds to safety concerns.
According to the agency, veterans and their beneficiaries receive only 140 abortions per year under the VA policy.
Trump’s VA secretary Doug Collins is a determined abortion opponent.
As a member of Congress, he got a+ Rating From Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America and Quote The 1973 Supreme Court ruling established the right to abortion as “guarably coherent”.
Women are the fastest-growing veterans, a considerable proportion of female veterans of breeding age living in Florida, Georgia and Texas, the state is almost abortion ban.
Comment period for proposed rules run Until September 3. Democrats on Capitol Hill have Proposed legislation If the regulations come into effect and establish legal rights for veterans and eligible dependents to receive abortion, medication and counseling through VA, that would overturn the regulations.
However, the bill has hardly passed given the Republican control over Congress.
When the VA introduced the proposed rules on August 4, Republicans from the House Veterans Affairs Committee led by Illinois Chairman Mike Bost released Joint Statement Praise this decision.
“It’s simple,” they said. “Taxpayers don’t want their hard money to spend on abortions — the only focus of Virginia should always provide health care and benefits connected to the service to veterans.”
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