Several articles have come out about this:
Fox:General Defends Move to Prohibit Pregnancy, Calls Female Soldiers ‘Invaluable’
CNN: U.S. soldiers in Iraq could face courts-martial for getting pregnant
ABC: Army General Makes Pregnancy Punishable Offense in Iraq
It was only a matter of time before the military attempted to address this issue; although punishing someone for getting pregnant is a rather interesting method of confronting the problem. When mixing men and women together for the sake of political correctness; gender norming (lowering) physical requirements and tests so that women qualify…treating men and women as though they’re no different than one another, inevitably sex becomes and issue.
A high-ranking Army official’s new policy making pregnancy among troops in Iraq an offense punishable by court-martial is raising eyebrows, even though experts say he is well within his rights to do so.
Military experts say Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III is well within his rights to punish soldiers for becoming pregnant or getting a woman pregnant under his command.
According to the Nov. 4 general order of Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III, a commander in northern Iraq, the punishment would apply not only to the female soldiers who become pregnant, but also to the male soldiers who impregnate them, even if the couple is married.
Cucolo told ABC News that the policy, believed to be the first of its kind, was necessary to avoid losing valuable troops in his 22,000-member command.
“I need every soldier I’ve got, especially since we are facing a drawdown of forces during our mission. Anyone who leaves this fight earlier than the expected 12-month deployment creates a burden on their teammates,” he said in a statement.
“Anyone who leaves this fight early because they made a personal choice that changed their medical status — or contributes to doing that to another — is not in keeping with a key element of our ethos, ‘I will always place the mission first,’ or three of our seven core values: loyalty, duty and selfless service,” he continued. “And I believe there should be negative consequences for making that personal choice. ”
The pregnancy policy is just one provision in a larger general order that also prohibits soldiers from sexual contact with Iraqis or third-party nationals who are not members of coalition forces. (Sarah Netter, ABC)
Will the government make abortion available to these soldiers as an option to prevent them from being court martialed or jailed? It wouldn’t come as a surprise if they did…political correctness that pretends there are no consequences to behaviors would “fix” it in precisely the same way that Planned Parenthood “fixes” the same problem for our young people.
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