Jackie Speier: “This is a black eye on our U.S. military.”

I thank the gentlewoman for her powerful comments. On top of everything else, we passed one law which was the Hyde amendment, that said you can't use Federal funds for medical abortions, so Medicaid was not made available for that purpose…

Please provide a brief summary of actions taken so far to implement each IRC recommendation that has been tasked to the services.

I thank the gentlewoman for her service then and for her service now. Her comments about young servicewomen just out of high school or college, who find themselves pregnant and seek an abortion, reminds me of a story that I heard at a base…

DOD must act now to provide the right resources at the right time at the right place so that service members and their families--who have no choice about where they live--continue to have access to the reproductive care they need, want…