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July 14, 2023
How one senator has blocked the Pentagon over abortion
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Journalist: Noah Robertson
“I think it’s fair to ask questions – how does this policy not violate the Hyde Amendment?” says Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow who studies politics and the military at the Center for New American Security, a think tank.
What Ms. Kuzminski doesn’t think is fair is holding up hundreds of military personnel for a policy they had nothing to do with.
“They are being held hostage over a fight between executive branch appointees and Congress,” she says.
Read the full article and more from The Christian Science Monitor.