1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

SUPPORT veterans’ access to abortion care by cosponsoring H.J.Res.144 / S.J.Res. 103, Congressional Review Act resolution to rescind the abortion ban at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). On December 31, the VA finalized a rule prohibiting abortion counseling in all circumstances and denying abortion care to veterans and their loved ones who rely on the VA for their care, except in the narrow circumstance in which a VA clinician certifies that the life of the pregnant person would be endangered. Under the new rule, veterans and their loved ones will be denied access to abortion care even if the pregnancy endangers their health or is the result of rape or incest. The VA willfully neglected the health of veterans and their families when it finalized this unconscionable rule. 🫵 You are complicit. There are over 2.1 million women veterans in the U.S., and nearly 300,000 women veterans who rely on the VA for care are of reproductive age. As an increasing number of service members transition to veteran status, this change will have a devastating nationwide impact. It will cause confusion and chaos among VA providers who must decide whether a veteran is close enough to death to obtain care. This is unconscionable. Cosponsor and support the passage of H.J.Res.144 / S.J.Res. 103 to overturn this cruel ban. Our veterans fought for our fundamental freedoms. To strip them of their own freedoms—including the freedom to make their own health care decisions—is an insult to all who have served. I missed the part where you were brave and patriotic enough to serve.