Legislative Update

On April 19, 2023 the Senate voted 51-48 to go against the longstanding policies of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DOD) by pushing to implement providing abortion services through the taxpayer-funded VA health care system. This is a break with long-standing federal law to push abortion-on-demand. Taxpayers do not want their tax dollars being used to pay for abortions, that includes using this money for VA medical facilities to provide publicly funded abortions. This is a radical and harmful shift in military policy and should be overturned.  For more information see the joint letter from the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services and Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington.

We can still urge Congress to overturn the DOD and VA decisions, and to direct the DOD and VA to offer real support to women, children, and families in need to empower them to have a positive future—and not use federal resources, or compel our military personnel, to facilitate, promote, or provide abortion.