The Patriot Post® · The Pentagon's Planned Parenthood Priorities

It has been crassly said that the military’s job is to kill people and break things. Normally, the target is America’s enemies. Joe Biden’s Pentagon aims that destruction at future military recruits.

In fact, we’re now told that the Pentagon has a “sacred obligation” to kill unborn generations of American warriors. How sick are these people?

As our Thomas Gallatin noted last week, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is single-handedly blocking numerous Department of Defense appointments because Team Biden is hell-bent on using taxpayer dollars to provide abortion to service members and veterans. House Republicans, meanwhile, passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which overturns Biden’s Pentagon abortion policy among other things.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was asked about that Monday. He pounded the podium in righteous indignation as he explained why it’s critical that the “one in five” service personnel who are women, as well as the spouses of service members, are right to expect abortions will be provided:

When you sign up and make that contract, you have every right to expect that the organization, in this case, the military, is going to take care of you and your family and make sure you can serve with dignity and respect, no matter who you are or who you love or how you worship or don’t. And our policies, whether they are diversity, inclusion, and equity, whether they’re about transgender individuals who qualify, physically and mentally to serve, to be able to do it with dignity, or whether it is about female service members, one in five, or female family members being able to count on the kinds of healthcare, reproductive care specifically, that they need to serve, that is a foundational sacred obligation of military leaders across the river.

John Kirby goes on a minutes-long tirade trying to explain why abortion is necessary for military readiness. pic.twitter.com/o0ry8lHjNx

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Whew, that is an awful lot of social justice jargon. Think for a minute about a couple of Kirby’s illogical assertions. The military “is going to take care of you and your family” by ensuring that one of them is never born. Kirby is denying dignity and respect to that unborn individual. We know leftists treat abortion like a sacrament of their religion, but the word “sacred” should never be associated with the practice, unless in opposition to it.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion never helped a single person aim a rifle more accurately or fly a plane or helicopter more competently. Neither has opening the military to “transgender” service members, who clearly have serious mental issues that bring them to the point of pretending to be the opposite sex even to the extent of lopping off perfectly healthy body parts.

Kirby tried to claim that lack of access to abortion in states like Tuberville’s Alabama is becoming “a retention and a morale issue.” Yeah, it is that, just not in the way he thinks. In fact, DEI and generally woke policies are harming military readiness, undermining morale, and causing a retention and recruitment crisis.

Predictably, Kirby’s allies in the Leftmedia jumped on board the “blame Republicans” train. PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett claimed Republicans are using the NDAA “as a cudgel in the culture wars and to really virtue-signal to members of their base.” Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented, “It puts our national security at risk.”

The opposite is true. Conservatives didn’t start the culture wars. “Progressives” did, and they are the ones jeopardizing national security by treating the military as a petri dish for their social experiments.

Another point that may be less popular to make is that this is one of the downsides to females serving in active-duty roles. Especially for those who are unmarried, biology still happens and a pregnancy presents more than one problem unique to a woman. A woman can’t exactly be ready to deploy when she is about to or has just given birth. The “easy” solution is an abortion, but then the woman carries mental and emotional damage that can affect her readiness in the future. (Much the same could be said for the dude who wants to become a lady.)

Social justice warriors like Kirby simply blame everyone else for those problems.

All the while, Patriots who truly love their country are looking at Joe Biden’s military and saying a collective “nope.” That is shameful, and a change of administration is needed to turn it around.