WASHINGTON – Troops seeking reproductive health care, including abortions, not covered by the Defense Department will no longer receive travel stipends to do so after the Pentagon revoked its travel policy Thursday. Announcement of the policy being revoked was published by the Defense Travel Management Office and went into effect immediately. Canceling the policy is in line with an executive order signed last week by President Donald Trump that bars the use of federal taxpayer dollars for abortion services. The policy allowed service members to take up to three weeks...

Pentagon officials have rescinded a Biden administration-era policy that granted paid leave and reimbursed travel expenses for military service members based in states where abortion is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.