Vicky Hartzler: “It sounds like a little ambiguous answer there. We don't know if this includes abortion counseling or not. Madam Chair…”

“It sounds like a little ambiguous answer there. We don't know if this includes abortion counseling or not. Madam Chair, I just think that this is an unnecessary mandate to push family planning curriculum on a captive audience, and perhaps it is not the best use of the time of our military. Other government employees are not forced to leave their job duties to attend family planning training. You don't hear of the Department of Education having their employees go or the Department of Transportation or any of the other departments, yet we want to take our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines off the training field and bring them in for this curriculum. I would suggest that we should not target our military population and use their precious time in this way. I believe too much is at stake. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”