Pro-Life Senator Tommy Tuberville Rejects Show Vote in Exchange for Letting Pentagon Fund Abortions

Senator Tommy Tuberville is not interested in the latest proposal from the White House to back down on blocking over 200 military nominees in exchange for a show vote on abortion funding.

The Alabama senator continues to stand strong against the Pentagon’s illegal abortion funding — to the chagrin of pro-abortion Democrats who want him to give up his fight to protect babies and support pro-life Americans.

The new Department of Defense policy requires taxpayers to pay travel costs and paid time off for military service members and their families to abort their unborn babies. As a result, Republicans estimate approximately 4,100 more unborn babies will be killed in abortions every year — and partly on the taxpayer dime.

To resolve the impasse, the Biden administration has offered a committee vote on a bill to overturn the Pentagon’s abortion funding policy in exchange for his commitment to allow votes on its nominees. But Tuberville is not taking the bait because he knows that the bill will likely be defeated in a Democrat-controlled committee, and would likely be filibustered by Democrats on the floor and will never become law. Thus, he would give up his leverage for nothing in return.

Now, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby is calling on Republicans to lobby Tuberville to give up:

Here’s more on Tuberville’s principled stance:

“We certainly urge and encourage other members of the Senate on the Republican side to put enough pressure on Sen. Tuberville to get him to lift his hold,” Kirby said during an interview on CNN. “I’m grateful for the work other Republican senators have done to try to find a way through this.”

“There needs to be a break in this impasse because it is, again, it’s already had extended effects on our readiness,” he added.

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“I will keep my hold until the Pentagon follows the law [or] Congress changes the law. That’s the way we do it here in the Senate,” Tuberville said during a speech on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. “A ‘show vote’ in committee is not good enough. We can do that all we want. It’s not going to make any difference. An amendment that gets stripped out on the floor by Sen. Schumer is not good enough.”

Kirby claims Tuberville’s blockade on the nominees was hurting military families and readiness, but Tuberville disagrees.

“These military positions are being fulfilled by acting officials. These jobs are being done right now. They’re not empty,” he said.

Tuberville said the Biden administration and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are the ones to blame for putting their pro-abortion politics ahead of military promotions.

“This is about a tyrannical executive branch walking all over the United States Senate and doing our jobs,” he said. “This was Secretary Austin’s choice. [He] thought abortion is more important than his highest-level military nominations.”

Tuberville, U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, and others have pointed out that the new pro-abortion policy clearly violates Title 10 Section 1093 of the U.S. Code, which states that “funds available to the Department of Defense may not be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in a case in which the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.”

Tuberville’s actions do not completely block nominees. Tuberville’s objections just prevent the U.S. Senate from voting to confirm long lists of nominees at once, as it typically does; instead, lawmakers must vote on each nominee one at a time, which takes longer.

Polls consistently show strong public opposition to taxpayer-funded abortions. A new Marist poll found 60 percent of Americans oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions in the U.S. Additionally, 78 percent oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions in other countries.

Bans on taxpayer funding for elective abortions used to have strong bipartisan support in Congress. Only recently did Democrat leaders abandon the American people on the issue and begin supporting taxpayer funding for elective abortions – a goal of the abortion industry, which spends huge amounts of money on elections.

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