Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is a pro-life champion. He has taken the heat for months from Democrats and the liberal media for standing his ground on pro-life principles.
Tuberville has blocked hundreds of military promotions in an effort to stop the Biden administration from forcing Americans to fund abortions via abortion travel for members of the military. He understands that the military is meant to protect Americans and that our tax dollars should not be used to fund killing the very Americans they serve and protect.
Unpopular and likely illegal, the policy requires taxpayers to fund travel costs and paid time off for military service members and their families to abort their unborn babies in elective abortions. As a result, Republican leaders estimate 4,100 more unborn babies could be killed in abortions every year.
Tuiberville is blocking all military promotions until the policy is ended. And Joe Biden is not happy about it.
Today he slammed Tuberville and tried to make it look like the pro-life senator is hurting military readiness as a result of the block – even though all of the promotions could be approved in one vote if Biden would withdraw the abortion funding policy.
As the Washington Post reports:
President Biden on Thursday publicly denounced Sen. Tommy Tuberville for single-handedly stalling the confirmation of more than 250 senior military officers over a dispute on abortion policy, accusing the Alabama Republican of using a “ridiculous” and “bizarre” tactic that is “jeopardizing U.S. security.”
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While speaking at a news conference in Helsinki alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, Biden also called on Republicans in Washington to “stand up and do something about it.”
Biden was asked by an American reporter if he’d be willing to talk to Tuberville directly about ending his blockade.
“I’d be willing to talk to him if there’s any possibility of changing this ridiculous position that is jeopardizing U.S. security,” Biden said. “I expect the Republican Party to stand up, stand up and do something about it.”
“The idea that we don’t have a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the idea that we have all these promotions that are in abeyance right now, we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Biden continued, saying Tuberville’s attempt to gain leverage on a social issue by affecting foreign policy “is bizarre.”
Biden said he’s “confident” that the “mainstream” Republican Party no longer supports what Tuberville is doing. “But they’ve got to stand up and be counted. That’s how it ends,” Biden said.
That’s false. Biden could easily end this showdown if he would rescind thje policy and stop forcing Americans to fund abortion travel, a policy that the senator notes is illegal.
Last week, Tuberville said the White House has ignored his requests to talk about the matter, and he is not backing down.
“I’m not going to change my approach,” he told CNN. “I’ve told them all along where we stood. … I’m not changing my mind. I’ve had zero conversations with the White House, 10 minutes with [the Secretary of Defense]. And hopefully we get more conversations in the future, but I’m not changing my mind.”
The senator said Gen. Eric Smith, the branch’s No. 2 official who is President Joe Biden’s pick to formally take over [U.S. Marine Corps] command, has already taken on the top position in an acting capacity.
“He’s assumed the duties already. It’s not like it’s void of a position, it’s just the name,” Tuberville said. …
Tuberville stressed that the Senate could still hold a vote to approve individual nominations, a process he said would be “very easy to do.”
His actions do not completely block Pentagon nominees. Tuberville’s objections just prevent the U.S. Senate from voting to confirm long lists of promotions at once, as it typically does; instead, lawmakers must vote on each nominee one at a time, which takes longer.
Tuberville and other Republican leaders said Biden’s pro-abortion policy 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.”
“This is about a tyrannical executive branch walking all over the United States Senate and doing our jobs,” Tuberville told WBHM in May. “This was Secretary Austin’s choice. [He] thought abortion is more important than his highest-level military nominations.”
Leading pro-life organizations have praised the senator for his steadfast commitment to life, despite being the target of massive criticism from the Biden administration, Democrat leaders and many news outlets.
“The Heritage Foundation stands united in our support of your strong stance in opposition to new Department of Defense policies relating to abortion. The new DoD policies are illegal, immoral, and further erode American’s trust in the capability of the U.S. Armed Forces to fulfill its mission,” Heritage Foundation vice presidents James J. Carafano, John Malcolm and Roger Severino told Tuberville in a May letter.
Recently, U.S. House Republicans introduced legislation to reverse the order and strengthen the law that bans taxpayer funding for abortions in the military.
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.
