Gotta love those phony GOP pols, phony in as there isn't a GOP, for screwing with the military at a time of the continued wars of choice They Started and as they do same for veterans issues constantly!!
21 Oct 2010 - A senatorial hold on President Obama's nominee for the Pentagon's top health policy position is compromising the military's ability to address quality and cost issues and cope with an increase in wounded soldiers from Afghanistan, Undersecretary of Defense Clifford Stanley said on Tuesday, CQ Today reports.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) placed a hold on Obama's nomination of Jonathan Woodson, a vascular surgeon and Army Reserve brigadier general, to be the assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs. Wicker objects to a provision in the Defense authorization bill (S 3454) that would allow women to obtain abortion services at military facilities (Oliveri, CQ Today, 10/20). The provision, authored by Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), would repeal a policy that bans nearly all abortion services at military hospitals, even if paid for with private funds. The Burris provision would allow members of the military and their dependents to obtain abortion care at military hospitals if they paid for the procedure with their own money. The House passed its version of the defense spending bill (HR 5136) in May but did not include language comparable to the Burris provision. Currently, abortion services are banned at all military facilities unless the woman's life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest (Women's Health Policy Report, 10/19). {read rest}
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