Category: Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs to Offer Abortions, a Move Some Say Is Illegal

September 2, 2022
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Sept. 2 announced plans to offer abortions, despite warnings that such a move would be illegal. The VA’s interim final rule lets the department provide abortion counseling and abortions to pregnant veterans and beneficiaries. The abortions will be available when “the life or the health of the pregnant…

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Senate Passes Bill to Help Veterans Exposed to Toxic Burn Pits

August 2, 2022
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The U.S. Senate on Aug. 2 passed a bill to expand healthcare coverage that would benefit veterans who had been exposed to military toxic burn pits. The vote to approve the PACT Act was 86–11. The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk. In a statement, Biden called the bill’s passage the “biggest expansion…

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Veterans Affairs Denies Life-Saving Lung Transplant to Unvaccinated Veteran

June 3, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denied a life-saving lung transplant to U.S. Army veteran because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. James Jooyandeh’s requests for both a referral for the transplant and a religious exemption from the vaccine were recently denied by the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Wisconsin where Jooyandeh has been treated for the…

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Veterans Affairs Poised to Lose Hundreds of Staff Hired to Deal With Claims Backlog

February 6, 2022
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OTTAWA—Veterans Affairs Canada says the Liberal government has agreed to extend the contracts of only about one-third of the temporary staff hired to deal with a backlog of disability claims from ill and injured ex-soldiers. That is despite the fact the department still has nearly 34,000 unprocessed applications on its desk—a number that officials warn…

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NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (March 4)

March 4, 2021
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Security ramps up at the Capitol after intel reports of a supposed plot by violent extremists, 1,600 arrests are made in a single Texas border sector, and a Veterans Affairs update reveals hundreds of thousands of veterans are recovering from the virus.