An Injustice for Women in Uniform

Last month, Republican senate leaders blocked consideration of an amendment that would have lifted the ban that denies female service members coverage for abortion costs in rape and incest cases. There are more than 200,000 women currently on active duty in the military. Right now, military health pays for abortions only when the pregnancy is endangering a woman's life. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said all the amendment would have done is give military women the same coverage now afforded civilians who work for the federal government or rely on Medicaid. Shaheen said "..the amendment should not have been controversial."

The author of this editorial, Andrew Rosenthal, definnitely does not agree with the blocked consideration of the amendment. He strongly believes that women in the military deserve this right. He shows this when he says, "There is no rational argument for providing military women lesser coverage..." Rosenthal finishes this editorial saying, "Making a modestly paid enlistee find the money to end a pregnancy resulting from a rape is inexcusably cruel." 

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