<p>The secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) told CNN on Sunday that the department is looking at ways to provide abortions in states that have banned it.</p>
<p>During an interview, host Jake Tapper asked about a letter from Senate Democrats and cited an analysis by the <a href="https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/economic-justice/reports/state-abortion-bans-harm-woc.html">National Partnership for Women &amp; Families,</a> showing that 389,600 women veterans live in states where abortion is banned. &#8220;Will the VA take this measure and allow abortion services at VA hospitals even in states where abortion is banned?&#8221; Tapper asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are 300,000 women veterans of childbearing age who rely on us for their reproductive health care, for all their health care,&#8221; VA Secretary Denis McDonough responded. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure that they have access to the full slate of that care, because that&#8217;s what we owe them.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In those states?&#8221; Tapper asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking expressly at these questions about how we guarantee the life and the health of our women veterans, those 300,000 who rely on us for their care,&#8221; McDonough responded. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any announcements to make on that this morning, Jake. But we&#8217;re looking very closely at that to ensure that there&#8217;s no diminution and no reduction of services to them and no risk to their &#8212; to their lives as a result of these decisions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tapper also asked if McDonough would prefer to have abortions take place in VA clinics within those states.</p>
<p>&#8220;My preference is that those 300,000 women veterans &#8212; and that&#8217;s the fastest growing cohort of veterans that we have in our care, women veterans &#8212; my preference is that they not face risks to their lives as a result of this decision from the court,&#8221; McDonough said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure that we&#8217;re in a position to take care of that.&#8221;</p>
<p>McDonough&#8217;s comments came in response to a <a href="https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/07.28.2022_MKH_Letter%20to%20VA%20re_%20Abortion_Final.pdf">letter from 24 Democratic senators</a>, led by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, demanding that the VA amend or create regulations allowing VA to provide abortion and related services to veterans, after the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade. </em>&#8220;We contend that the VA has the statutory authority and discretion to provide abortions and abortion-related services and resources,&#8221; the senators wrote. &#8220;Importantly, the VA has used its authority under the Veterans Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 to provide reproductive care such as pregnancy care and infertility services.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The VA must do everything in its power to provide critical reproductive care to veterans and their dependents across the country,&#8221; the senators added.</p>
<p>The secretary&#8217;s comments add to a series of attempts by Democrats and the Biden administration to end-run states that have banned abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization</em>, which sent abortion laws back to the states.</p>
<p>Just a few days after the <em>Dobbs </em>decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said his department was looking at using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-wants-to-pick-up-travel-tab-for-women-seeking-abortions-in-wake-of-scotus-roe-ruling">taxpayer funds</a> to provide transportation across state lines for women seeking abortions. Far-left members of Congress, like Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-wants-abortion-clinics-on-federal-lands-which-include-national-parks">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-wants-planned-parenthood-to-put-up-tents-inside-national-parks">Elizabeth Warren,</a> have called for abortion clinics to be set up on federal lands.</p>

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