Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
“The Trump administration is confirming what we’ve always known: its promise to leave abortion to the states was a lie. No one is safe from their anti-abortion crusade, not even our nation’s veterans,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, in a statement.
Katie O’Connor, director of the federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, called the VA’s insistence that abortions have always been allowed in life-threatening circumstances “intentionally vague.”
“A life exception is never going to be enough to save lives,” she said, adding that the lack of clarity puts doctors and patients in difficult positions.