Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is leading a majority of the Senate GOP in an effort to end the current “war” on the unborn being waged by President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense (DOD) — which she asserted “exists to defend life, not destroy it.”
Ernst, the first female combat veteran elected to the Senate and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is leading 32 Senate Republican colleagues in her push to put a stop to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) abortion policy.
Following the defense agency’s announcement it would pay for servicemembers’ and their dependents’ travel expenses to undergo abortions, Ernst joined the entirety of Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month in a letter addressed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blasting the DOD’s decision.
“The Pentagon should not be mobilized against the unborn,” said Ernst, a staunch and longtime supporter of life. “The Department of Defense…
