{"id":28311,"date":"2024-06-14T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/14\/house-defense-bill-would-undo-pentagons-abortion-travel-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:11:18","slug":"house-defense-bill-would-undo-pentagons-abortion-travel-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2024\/06\/14\/house-defense-bill-would-undo-pentagons-abortion-travel-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"House defense bill would undo Pentagon\u2019s abortion travel policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House lawmakers are attempting to undo policies allowing Defense Department service members to use l<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Oct\/20\/2003099747\/-1\/-1\/1\/MEMORANDUM-ENSURING-ACCESS-TO-REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-CARE.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">eave, and travel and transportation allowance<\/a>s to obtain reproductive care for themselves or their dependents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the fallout of the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of Roe v. Wade still settling two years later, House lawmakers added a provision to the fiscal 2025 defense appropriations bill that restricts leave and reimbursement benefits for federal employees seeking an abortion or related procedures. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2024\/06\/05\/defense-spending-bill-forces-israel-arms-transfers-nixes-ukraine-aid\/\">the $833 billion bill<\/a> was approved in a 217-199 vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBiden\u2019s Department of Defense is using taxpayer dollars to fund time off, lodging and travel expenses for elective abortions, directly violating the long-standing Hyde Amendment in yet another attempt to promote abortion,\u201d said Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Tx., who led that <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2024\/roll263.xml\" target=\"_blank\">amendment<\/a> to the defense bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/military-benefits\/health-care\/2024\/04\/16\/is-telework-a-reasonable-accommodation-for-pregnant-federal-workers\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1413759840.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Is telework a \u2018reasonable accommodation\u2019 for pregnant federal workers?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The EEOC regulation also stipulates accommodations for workers seeking abortions or infertility treatments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a memo permitting three weeks of \u201cadministrative absence,\u201d which doesn\u2019t charge leave balance, for service members to receive reproductive health care or support a dependent seeking it. The policy came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2024\/01\/03\/abortion-access-policy-could-be-dumped-former-pentagon-leader-warns\/#:~:text=The%20military's%20abortion%20access%20policy%20was%20put%20in%20place%20in,Wade%20decision%20legalizing%20abortion%20nationwide.&#038;text=Leo%20covers%20Congress%2C%20Veterans%20Affairs,White%20House%20for%20Military%20Times.\" target=\"_blank\">states began initiating legislation<\/a> to restrict abortion after the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding constitutional protection in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization\/\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of April, 41 states have some kind of abortion restriction in place, 14 of which are a total ban, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that advocates for reproductive rights worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The benefit in question only provides reimbursement of travels costs to get access to otherwise noncovered reproductive health care services; it does not pay for the actual procedures with government funds. The policy also permits time off for appointments that may be related to infertility treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, Senate Republicans blocked a sweeping bill that would\u2019ve made IVF more affordable and accessible to veterans, service members and feds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just this March, the Pentagon released numbers showing how many in the department used the abortion travel policy since it was implemented in 2022. 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