Health Care

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly bans abortion services, counseling

The Trump administration has quietly banned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents, including those who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. The ban followed a memo authored by Joshua Craddock, deputy assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued Dec. 18 that concluded the VA may not…

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