no senate vote on lifting ban on military abortion coverage for rape and incest

No Senate Vote on Lifting Ban on Military Abortion Coverage for Rape, Incest

Senate leadership indicated yesterday that they will not permit a vote on an amendment to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act introduced by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), which would remove the military's ban on health coverage for abortions in instances of rape or incest.

Senator Shaheen stated, "This policy is fundamentally unfair to the more than 200,000 women serving in our military. They are fighting to protect our rights, and they should have the same rights to reproductive health care as our civilian employees."

Currently, Department of Defense policy does not permit military health insurance to cover abortions, even in cases of rape. It also prohibits military women from using their private money to obtain abortion services in US military facilities. According to a 2003 study by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, at least one-third of all women veterans have experienced rape or sexual assault during their service, primarily from US service personnel, and thirty percent of military women experience domestic violence. Moreover, rape occurs in the military nearly twice as often as in the civilian world.

http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=13355

Why is our constituion not equally applied? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHkDDqexHs&feature=player_embedded

We're chattel property breeding livestock.

That is all.

Then they ask us why we're angry!

Every year, it gets kicked around the Service Chiefs' and Secretaries' offices, point papers are prepared, discussions go back and forth, promises are made, and nothing frigging happens.

It always ends up falling out at some stage of the authorization process.

That just makes me so mad. :mad: