
Pentagon officials have rescinded a Biden administration-era policy that granted paid leave and reimbursed travel expenses for military service members based in states where abortion is restricted. Officials at the Defense Travel Management Office announced the move to “Remove Travel for Non-Covered Reproductive Health Care Services” in a memo on Wednesday following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, “Enforcing the Hyde Amendment,” last week. Passed in 1976, the Hyde Amendment bars federal funding for abortion. “It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment,...