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...American servicewomen and the spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...
...change has long been visible on the horizon, but it was hurried along by a Navy eager to do something to smooth the choppy wake left by its official report on Tailhook. As the damaging document was readied for release two weeks ago, Navy brass quietly assured servicewomen at the Pentagon that, as one put it, "something was coming up soon that we would really like...
...women in combat cockpits before sending the recommendations on to Congress. After a yearlong, $4 million study, the 15-member commission came up with several odd objections to women serving in combat. First of all, the report argues, women might be taken as prisoners of war. Servicewomen, who are asking for assignments in which they could be killed, have already said they are willing to risk imprisonment. The commission also insisted that if both parents in a family are in the service, one should be forced to quit. Guess which...
...dare to complain are often branded as "too soft." Such is the backdrop against which women in the armed forces must determine whether it is worth registering a complaint when a male colleague steps out of line. Although a 1990 Pentagon study found that fully two-thirds of U.S. servicewomen have been sexually harassed by male military personnel, few file complaints. The social and professional costs, it would seem, are often too high...
Women are not unanimous in supporting the idea of females in combat. Even within the armed forces, combat lust is more widespread among female officers than enlisted servicewomen. "What we're seeing," says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, "is a push by female officers and civilian feminists." Moskos and others argue that introducing the notion of combat equality may sharply reduce the number of women who enlist and could cause problems in the future if the draft is ever reinstated...