Senate Defense Bill Would Allow Abortions in Military Hospitals

The media would have you believe the Defense Authorization Bill is just about funding ongoing defense operations and doing away with Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but there much more to it than that:

Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) spoke with National Review Online this afternoon via telephone from Arizona. “Interesting times,” began McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. For him, it has been a rough week. He says he is frustrated with the “disgraceful” way Democrats are handling the defense authorization bill — specifically, their insistence in tying their attempt to repeal "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" to the measure. On Thursday, the committee approved an amendment repealing the policy on a 16-to-12 vote.

“Once people realize what else is in this, there will be a lot of questions on the Senate floor,” McCain predicts. “It has more than just [Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell]. They’ve put in a provision to allow abortions to be performed at military hospitals. They’ve also cut a billion dollars out of the authorization for the Iraqi military and stuffed in a billion dollars of earmarks.”

The bill will be taken up by the entire Senate in June.