Is abortion a key to U.S. military might?

WaPo writer says yes

According to U.S. Navy veteran Allison Gill in the WaPo, “Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military.”

She starts with a horrible story, “When I was 21, I was drugged and raped violently while serving in the military, a crime that resulted in pregnancy.” She then got an abortion. Of course, more should be done to prevent such assaults.

She then jumps to this conclusion, “Should Roe be overturned and access to abortion restricted for female service members across the United States, military readiness would be directly affected.”

I’m not seeing it. The purpose of the U.S. military is to win wars. Roe was handed down in 1973. Right after, in 1975, the Vietnam War was lost as the helicopters took off from the U.S. embassy in Saigon.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars turned into disasters. So did the Syria and Somalia wars.

I guess you could chalk up the Grenada and Panama invasions as successes, but those were small affairs. The 1991-2 Gulf War was a success, albeit leading later to the Iraq War debacle.

She’s also missing the larger picture that the U.S. military simply is too big and ought to be reduced sharply. We don’t need bases in more than 100 countries around the world. NATO was supposed do dissolve when the USSR dissolved in 1991. Instead, NATO keeps expanding and finding new missions, such as the disastrous ongoing Ukraine War.

It also was a mistake to put women into combat positions. Sorry, but that’s a fact. I saw it myself when it was first tried back in the late 1970s, when I was with a mobile intelligence unit in West Germany, 1979-82. The women soldiers, because they have half the upper-body strength of men, couldn’t lift a lot of our heavy equipment, so the men had to do more than their fair share.

And women get pregnant intentionally, meaning they soon are unable to go on many missions, including those not in combat. We had one young soldier in my unit who was five months pregnant on a “field problem” in the woods of Deutschland. All she could do was sit in our communications hut and make coffee. Our unit was understrengthed as it was.

Back when we could win big wars, such as World War II, women played vital roles as nurses and other support personnel, behind the lines, with strict safety precautions. Abortions not only were banned, but were considered by 99% of Americans to be an “unspeakable crime.”

If abortions were necessary to win wars, why weren’t they advocated by Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Patton, Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz?

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