They find it 'extremely disconcerting' that the VA could be offering abortions for 'mental health concerns,' per a letter obtained by Military.com.
The VA’s policy, implemented in September 2022, offers abortion services to veterans who are impregnated by rape or in cases when the life or health of the mother is endangered by pregnancy. Shortly after, Republicans on the House VA Committee requested detailed data on abortions provided by the VA on a quarterly basis, which they say the VA has failed to hand over
. The VA holds that providing this data would violate veterans’ privacy and even allow the committee to identify individual abortion seekers, per Military.com’s reporting.In their letter to the VA this week, Bost and Miller-Meeks threaten to subpoena the department for the data should they not provide it by Sept. 30, asserting that “the American taxpayers funding these abortion procedures at VA deserve to know” how the policy is being implemented.
House Republicans seem to be levying an accusation that the VA is inappropriately offering abortions for mental health-related cases. They also seem to be insinuating that having an abortion negatively impacts someone’s mental health, when research has shown that being denied an abortion can have
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