“We have to make sure that a service member serving in Alabama has the same rights and access to reproductive health as a service member in California or a service member in Korea,” Singh said. “We need to make sure that there is equity across our military and that all of our service members have access to reproductive health care.”
The Pentagon announced last year that it would pay allowances for troops and their dependents traveling to obtain abortions in places where they remain legal because of concern that the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion put pressure on military readiness and recruitment.“Our policy — to explain to the senator who has gotten multiple briefings on this — does not change what the department covers for reproductive health,” Singh said.