GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville Holds Up Military Promotions To Protest Pentagon’s Abortion Policy
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren‘s (D-Massachusetts) request to bring over 180 military promotions to the Senate floor. Tuberville opposes the Department of Defense’s (DOD) policy to provide leave and reimburse payments for service members who must travel and get abortions. Tuberville objected to a DOD policy that allowed military members to request leave for “non-covered reproductive health services.” The policy includes elective abortions and in-vitro fertilization. The first-term senator’s protests halted the promotion of Shoshana Chatfield to become the milit...