18 AGs Challenge Joe Biden’s Plan to Turn VA Clinics Into Abortion Businesses
January 19, 2023 | Mississippi
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who was instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade, and 17 other state attorneys general have challenged the Biden administration ruling that would turn VA hospitals into abortion centers.
Fitch and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall are leading the group of 18 AGs in filing an amicus brief in the Western District of Texas in the case of Carter v McDonough.
On September 9, Joe Biden issued a new rule that requires Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals to provide taxpayer-funded abortions “regardless of state restrictions” – a clear violation of the law, the attorneys generals said. A Texas nurse has filed a lawsuit to stop Joe Biden from moving forward and the 18 AG are supporting her lawsuit.
The AGs say Biden’s move incorrectly reversed long-standing agency practice and adopted an interim final rule that purports to authorize taxpayer-funded abortions and abortion counseling for veterans and their beneficiaries.
“In direct contravention of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch, “President Biden has taken abortion policy away from state legislators, Congress, and, most importantly, the people and given it to political appointees in his own Administration. The Dobbs decision was about the rule of law. This VA rule is precisely the opposite.”… (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
