After Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration had limited options, but the Democratic White House made a difference where it could. In fact, soon after the high court’s Dobbs ruling, the Biden administration created a policy to allow veterans to get abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals — even in red states where reproductive rights had been dramatically curtailed, if not eliminated altogether.
At the time, VA officials said those abortion bans had created “urgent risks” to pregnant veterans, necessitating an “essential” policy change.
As The Washington Post reported, Donald Trump and his team are undoing what Joe Biden and his team did for veterans.
Pregnant veterans would no longer be allowed to receive abortions at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnancy threatens their health under a proposed rule from the Trump administration that would revoke a Biden-era policy expanding abortion access. … In its filing Friday, the Trump administration called the 2022 rule change ‘inappropriate’ and ‘legally questionable.’
The Post spoke to Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America, which opposes the change, who expressed concern about the implications of the newly proposed policy.
“If you were a veteran, what would you choose?” Church said. “I wouldn’t choose the institution that told me that I absolutely have to be dying. I would go anywhere else.”








