Tuberville says it’s Democ­rats who pri­or­i­tize abor­tion over nation­al secu­ri­ty

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tom­my Tuberville (R‑AL) is accus­ing Democ­rats of car­ing more about abor­tion than nation­al secu­ri­ty, argu­ing that the par­ty is only sup­port­ing the Pentagon’s abor­tion pol­i­cy because it helps them elec­toral­ly.
Tuberville took aim at Democ­rats’ pri­ma­ry crit­i­cism of his con­tro­ver­sial month­s­long hold on Pen­ta­gon con­fir­ma­tions in an inter­view with the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er on Tues­day, dis­miss­ing the argu­ment that the effort jeop­ar­dizes nation­al secu­ri­ty and mil­i­tary readi­ness.
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The Alaba­ma sen­a­tor argued that Democ­rats, who con­trol the Sen­ate and White House, would sim­ply reverse the Pentagon’s abor­tion pol­i­cy if nation­al secu­ri­ty was legit­i­mate­ly at stake. He believes Democ­rats won’t back down from sup­port­ing the pol­i­cy, which pays for the trav­el costs and time off of ser­vice mem­bers who must trav­el out of state to receive an abor­tion due to restric­tive laws, because abor­tion is more cen­tral to the party’s elec­toral suc­cess than …