Tuberville has for months refused to cooperate in approving the promotions of more than 200 military officers, citing the Pentagon’s “illegal” abortion travel policy.
The travel policy, which took effect in March, would multiply the amount of taxpayer-funded abortions by 205 times compared with the previous year, Tuberville’s website says, citing a “third-party study.”
“I will keep my hold until the Pentagon follows the law [or] Congress changes the law. That’s the way we do it here in the Senate,” Tuberville said on the Senate floor June 15.
“EWTN News Nightly” White House Correspondent Owen Jensen asked Biden on the South Lawn Wednesday morning for his response to Tuberville’s blockade.
“He’s not budging, as I understand from my colleagues. It’s totally inappropriate. It’s outrageous,” Biden said.
Jensen followed up and said: “But he says the Defense Department should not be paying for abortion travel. Your response?”
“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Biden said.
March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement Wednesday that “President Biden supports the most extreme abortion agenda that our country has ever seen: abortion on demand, up until birth, and paid for by American taxpayers, with no protections for the unborn whatsoever.”
“His actions make this clear — such as his support for the deceptively named Women’s Health Protection Act, which actually goes way beyond Roe’s extreme regime, his attempts to eliminate the Hyde Amendment, and his administration’s taxpayer-funded abortion mandates in federal agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs,” she said.
“These disturbing measures violate the will of an overwhelming majority of Americans who want legal protections for our nation’s youngest citizens.”
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Determined to ‘bring back Roe’
At the campaign fundraiser on Tuesday, Biden said he is “determined to bring back Roe v. Wade,” adding that his “objective to do that is to get the states — half the states to decide that, because now the [Supreme] Court said, you know, it’s [a] state issue.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, said in a statement that “Joe Biden is the most pro-abortion president with the most pro-abortion administration in history.”
“Don’t take our word for it, look at his record. The idea that Roe v. Wade set any meaningful gestational limits on abortion is false and debunked,” she said.
“Indeed, under Roe the United States was (and still is) one of seven nations including China and North Korea that allow abortion on demand for any reason after five months of pregnancy. Biden also supports legislation that would block virtually every law in the country, state or federal, protecting unborn children,” she added.
“If he is backtracking from the extreme no-limits position of the Democratic Party, it’s because that position is deeply unpopular.”