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Editorial: Cut off travel for pregnant troops based in a state where abortion is banned? That’s outrageous

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on July 18, 2023, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

In the military, service members don’t have much control over where they live or travel. That means they could be stationed on a base in a state that essentially bans abortion and have no access to reproductive care when they need it.

That’s why U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III last October directed all branches of the military to set up policies offering a pregnant

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