Press Release
Trump Administration Sacrifices Veterans’ Health to Ban Abortion at the VA
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Trump Administration Sacrifices Veterans’ Health to Ban Abortion at the VA
Washington, DC — Last week, Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly issued an opinion that effectively bans abortion for veterans by preventing Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors from providing abortion care.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Trump claims to be a champion for veterans and servicemembers, but he’s ripping away their health care. This decision endangers the health, lives, and futures of the people who have served our country—and it proves what we’ve long warned: Trump and his allies won’t stop until they’ve imposed a national abortion ban.”
Like the proposed VA rule filed by the Trump administration in August, the DOJ opinion reverses Biden-era policy that allowed VA providers to perform abortion services in limited circumstances.
In response to Trump’s proposed rule earlier this year, Congressional Democrats introduced the Reproductive Freedom for Veterans Act to ensure veterans’ access to abortion and related care, services, counseling, and medication by nullifying the final rule.
The DOJ opinion is the latest in a broader pattern of attacks from the Trump administration that erode servicemembers’ and veterans’ access to essential health care.
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For more than 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.