Pro-Life Senator Tommy Tuberville is not backing down. The Alabama senator continues to stand strong against the Pentagon’s illegal abortion funding — to the chagrin of pro-abortion Democrats who want him to give up his fight to protect babies and support pro-life Americans.
The new Department of Defense policy requires taxpayers to pay travel costs and paid time off for military service members and their families to abort their unborn babies. As a result, Republicans estimate approximately 4,100 more unborn babies will be killed in abortions every year — and partly on the taxpayer dime.
“I’ve continued to reiterate my stance and my position over the last almost four months now about my opposition to this policy,” Tuberville said on the Senate floor recently.
And, according to an AP report, nothing has changed:
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville balked Monday at a proposal from Senate Democrats aimed at ending his hold on military promotions over the Pentagon’s new abortion travel policies.
A proposal to hold a Senate debate over Pentagon abortion policies as part of the annual defense bill negotiations was seen by some senators as the best prospect for getting Tuberville to lift those holds, but his office said Monday that Tuberville was opposed.
Tuberville said the Biden administration and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are the ones to blame for putting their pro-abortion politics ahead of military promotions.
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“This is about a tyrannical executive branch walking all over the United States Senate and doing our jobs,” he said. “This was Secretary Austin’s choice. [He] thought abortion is more important than his highest-level military nominations.”
Tuberville, U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, and others have pointed out that the new pro-abortion policy clearly violates Title 10 Section 1093 of the U.S. Code, which states that “funds available to the Department of Defense may not be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in a case in which the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.”
Tuberville’s actions do not completely block nominees. Tuberville’s objections just prevent the U.S. Senate from voting to confirm long lists of nominees at once, as it typically does; instead, lawmakers must vote on each nominee one at a time, which takes longer.
Polls consistently show strong public opposition to taxpayer-funded abortions. A new Marist poll found 60 percent of Americans oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions in the U.S. Additionally, 78 percent oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions in other countries.
Bans on taxpayer funding for elective abortions used to have strong bipartisan support in Congress. Only recently did Democrat leaders abandon the American people on the issue and begin supporting taxpayer funding for elective abortions – a goal of the abortion industry, which spends huge amounts of money on elections.
