Veterans Issues will terminate abortion services and return to pre-2022 rules
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Exclusive: The Veterans Affairs Bureau (VA) announces Friday it is reversing the Biden era exception that allows veterans to provide abortion services.
In a memo obtained by Fox News Digital, the VA said it will return the benefits of the medical package and “Champva” at the time leading up to September 2022. Agent Rules This has removed long-standing abortion restrictions.
The 1999 medical benefit package, as set out in the 1992 Act outline, does not approve abortion services as it is not deemed “necessary” under the law.
“That’s no doubt That va “The authorised is to prohibit the provision of abortion services through the VA medical benefits package to veterans,” reads the memo, and the former VA leadership, Roev. He added that the adjustment was made in favour of providing abortion in response to the Supreme Court’s DOBBS decision that effectively overturned Wade.
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Then a rep. Gillespie Montgomery, D-Miss. laid out the 1992 Veterans Health Care Act that agencies could provide multiple health services to women, including the Papanicolaou test (“Pap-Smears”), mammography, and “general reproductive care including menopause management.”
However, the law explicitly ruled out “infertility services (and) abortions” unless “infertility (and) pregnancy is associated with “an increase in the risk of complications (it) connected to the service.”
“Ahead of the 2022 Biden administration’s political motivation change, federal law and longstanding precedents via Democrats and Republican administrations have prevented the VA from offering abortion and abortion counseling,” a VA spokesperson discussed policy reversals with Fox News Digital.
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“The VA’s proposed rules will revive pre-Biden bipartisan policies and revert to sectors that are in line with historical norms.”
VA The memo states that the DOBBS decision is intended to prevent federal overreach and return control of abortion policy to the state, and that prior institutions are Chief Doug Collins“Tenage” did the exact opposite of what the 2022 policy change was meant to be done in that respect.
“(It) creates a federal qualification for abortion for veterans that had not previously existed, regardless of state law (eds),” the VA said.
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“Through nearly 50 years and numerous federal programs, including Medicaid, the Child Health Insurance Program, Tricare and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Congress has consistently led to a bright line between choice ability abortion and taxpayer-supported health care services.”
The agency also emphasized that reversals of its policy would not prevent pregnant women facing life-threatening circumstances from receiving care in such cases.