OpEdNews - Diary: THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE HAVE SET OUR RIGHTS INTO RETROGRADE MOTION

THEN: August 19, 2004 Abortion Becomes Issue For Military NOW: DECEMBER 19, 2009 POLICY WENT INTO EFFECT NOVEMBER 4, 2009. U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting pregnant. The current articles simply are being ignored by our Congress as we get skewered by not having a public option. More good reasons to NOT "do" Afghanistan, NOT to deny clinical abortions to be paid for with public monies and NOT to go down with the sinking ship of privatized health care.

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Here's the article in its entirety from August 19, 2004:
Abortion Becomes Issue For Military
HeraldNet
August 19, 2004
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_abortion_081904,00.html
This part of the article that I posted in its entirety really caught my eye:

"Beth Eby, an Army warrant officer who was stationed in Baghdad from January through July, e-mailed her parents in Roanoke, Va., in May that some pregnant soldiers in her unit opted to perform abortions on themselves rather than face disciplinary measures."

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_abortion_081904,00.html

Here are the original articles in their entirety from mainstream sources that went quietly into the night illustrating the present problems:
NOW: DECEMBER 19, 2009 BUT POLICY IN EFFECT SINCE NOVEMBER 4, 2009

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=66764

U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting pregnant
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, December 19, 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8422989.stm
General defends court martial for pregnant soldiers

click here

NBC News
updated 6:24 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec . 18, 2009

http://topics.npr.org/article/06JT8gH1iqf3X