23 Democrat Attorneys General Want to Force VA Clinics to Kill Babies in Abortions
Across America, VA hospitals and clinics are supposed to provide quality health care for those who served our country.
Democrats want to turn them into abortion centers.
A coalition of 23 Democrat attorneys general has filed a court brief seeking to overturn a Trump administration rule that ended the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of killing babies in abortions at its facilities, arguing the change denies veterans access to abortions even though abortions are skyrocketing nationwide as mail-order abortions proliferate.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined Democrat attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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“Those who have served in the military have made countless sacrifices to protect our freedoms and deserve the protection of their rights to reproductive freedom,” Raoul said.
The Trump administration’s rule reversed a 2022 Biden administration policy that had expanded abortions at taxpayer-funded VA centers. The Trump rule restore the pro-life policy that existed under pro-life presidents.
According to VA officials, the change followed a Justice Department opinion during the Biden era that opened to the door to killing babies are VA centers.
“Prior to the Biden administration’s politically motivated change in 2022, federal law and longstanding precedent across Democrat and Republican administrations prevented VA from providing abortions and abortion counseling,” VA spokesperson Pete Kasperowicz said. The department complied with the opinion immediately.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Josh Craddock wrote that existing statutes “unambiguously command[] that VA may not provide abortions when furnishing medical care under 38 U.S.C. § 1710 or any other provision in chapter 17 of Title 38.”
A related DOJ memo stated, “It is without question that VA has the authority to bar provision of abortion services through the VA medical benefits package to veterans.”
Pro-life groups welcomed the restoration of the pre-2022 policy.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said, “We thank President Trump and VA Secretary Collins for restoring the rule of law and ending the Biden Administration’s illegal policy that forced taxpayers to fund abortions through VA hospitals and violated state pro-life laws.”
She added that veterans “deserve compassionate care and healing and should not be subjected to the violence of abortion.”
The Biden-era expansion had drawn earlier legal challenges, including a lawsuit by attorneys general in 18 states who argued it violated state protections for the unborn.
A separate pro-abortion suit against the Trump rule filed in May by the National Women’s Law Center and Democracy Forward on behalf of Minority Veterans of America seeks to force the VA to resume abortions.
