Newsweek Discovers Veterans Need Healthcare, Sidesteps VA's 2011 'Stall' on Abortion
Newsweek highlights a 'major change' to VA health services, including abortion counseling and services. While presented as a new development, the VA has been mired in this discussion for years. One might recall the 2011 push by congressional Republicans to prohibit the VA from covering abortions, despite calls for comprehensive care for women veterans. This isn't a sudden discovery; it's a slow,
grudging acknowledgment of healthcare needs, framed as a groundbreaking initiative. Instead of celebrating a basic human right's slow creep into military healthcare, perhaps we should question why it took over a decade and constant political maneuvering for the Department of Veterans Affairs to 'clarify' what many might consider essential services. How many veterans were denied care during the
bureaucratic limbo? The real story is the long, deliberate neglect, not the eventual, belated 'change.'