On August 1, the Trump Administration quietly announced a rule change to end abortions at hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and stop paying for abortions and abortion counseling for veterans and their dependents.
Up until September of 2022, VA hospitals generally did not perform or fund abortions except to save the life of the mother. Under the Biden Administration, the VA added broad “health” exceptions for abortion as part of an effort to expand abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Health exceptions for abortion are notoriously vague and can lead to abortion on demand in many cases. That’s why states like Arkansas limit abortion to situations where the mother’s life is at risk instead of using a broader “health” exception.
Click here to sign up for pro-life news alerts from LifeNews.com
The Biden Administration’s 2022 rules authorized VA hospitals to perform these abortions regardless of state pro-life laws. That meant a hospital in a state like Arkansas might perform abortions that would otherwise be illegal under state law.
Needless to say, the Biden Administration’s 2022 abortion rules were deeply flawed.
The VA’s new proposal says,
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to reinstate the full exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from the medical benefits package, which was removed in 2022. Before that time, this exclusion had been firmly in place since the medical benefits package was first established in 1999. VA is also proposing to reinstate the exclusions on abortion and abortion counseling for Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) that were removed in 2022. We take this action to ensure that VA provides only needed medical services to our nation’s heroes and their families.
This rule change would help protect women and unborn babies from abortion under the Department of Veterans Affairs. That is a major, pro-life victory.
The federal government has no business trying to overrule state pro-life laws or turn VA hospitals into abortion facilities. Family Council appreciates all of the pro-life leaders who have stood against these bad federal policies, and we appreciate the Trump administration’s decision to rescind President Biden’s flawed rules from 2022.
LifeNews Note: Jerry Cox is the president of the Arkansas Family Council.
The post Trump Reverses Biden Policy That Turned VA Clinics Into Abortion Centers appeared first on LifeNews.com.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Jerry Cox
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.lifenews.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
