Joe Biden Keeps Space Force Command Out of Alabama Because It’s Pro-Life on Abortion
Alabama leaders accused President Joe Biden of punishing their state for being pro-life this week after he canceled plans to move the U.S. Space Command Headquarters to Huntsville.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, slammed the decision as “blatant patronage politics” in retaliation for his state’s actions to protect unborn babies from abortion, the Catholic News Agency reports.
The Biden administration has “politicized our military, destroyed our recruiting, misused our tax dollars for their extremist social [abortion] agenda, and now they are putting Space Command headquarters in a location that didn’t even make the top three,” the pro-life lawmaker said.
On Monday, the Biden administration canceled plans to move Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama and announced its relocation to Colorado Springs. The Pentagon said Biden chose the Colorado city because it “ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period.”
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“It will also enable the command to most effectively plan, execute, and integrate military space power into multi-domain global operations in order to deter aggression and defend national interests,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
Alabama leaders responded with outrage, saying military leaders chose Huntsville as the prime location more than three years ago after an extensive review process. Biden also rejected the second- and third-place contenders, which are located in conservative states, and chose the fifth-place Colorado Springs instead.
Tuberville and others believe Biden’s radical pro-abortion politics are behind the change.
On Monday, the senator accused the president of “insert[ing] politics into what had been a fair and objective competition—not because the facts had changed, but because the political party of the sitting president had changed.”
Alabama protects unborn babies by banning elective abortions, and Tuberville has been a courageous voice for life in the U.S. Senate.
For months, he has received massive criticism from the White House and the media – and strong praise from pro-life advocates – for blocking Pentagon promotions in protest of a new pro-abortion policy. Biden’s order forces taxpayers to pay travel costs and paid time off for military service members and their families to abort their unborn babies.
The president has accused Tuberville of harming “military readiness” through his protest, but the Alabama senator said Biden is the one causing the problem by refusing to rescind his illegal policy.
“The Biden Administration has been talking a lot about readiness over the past few months, but no Administration has done more to damage our military readiness in my lifetime,” he said.
Responding to the Space Command decision, Tuberville said it is “shameful that the administration waited until Congress had gone into recess and already passed next year’s defense budget before announcing” the change.
To choose a site, the U.S. Air Force conducted a lengthy review process that examined infrastructure, costs, mission capability and other criteria. Authorities chose Huntsville, Alabama as the ideal spot from a list of 66 locations in 26 states, Tuberville’s office explained.
The second and third top sites were in Nebraska and Texas, both of which also protect unborn babies by limiting or banning elective abortions.
“This decision to bypass the three most qualified sites looks like blatant patronage politics, and it sets a dangerous precedent that military bases are now to be used as rewards for political supporters rather than for our security,” Tuberville said, while promising to fight the decision.
Other Alabama leaders also criticized Biden for the switch. Gov. Kay Ivey, a pro-life Republican, said the change will damage national security, and Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle called the decision “disturbing.”
“This community went through a lengthy selection process – twice,” Battle said in a statement Monday. “To have that process invalidated, and to have our selection taken away is demoralizing. It is even more disturbing that the selection is going to the community that ranked fifth in the selection process. Our systems should be better than that. The Department of Defense deserves better than that.”
The Biden administration also has been accused of prioritizing abortion ahead of other issues, including health care for low-income women.
The president recently refused funding requests from three states to provide medical care for low-income women: Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. All three protect unborn babies by banning elective abortions.
“If you don’t promote abortion in your state, your state can’t get federal assistance for breast cancer screenings for those that are in poverty, AIDS screenings for those that are in poverty,” U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, said in a recent Newsmax interview. “… the Biden Administration is trying to increase the number of abortions in America.”
Under Biden, the U.S. government has expanded abortions in ways no other president has tried, including new military policies and an FDA action allowing abortion pills to be sold through the mail without ever seeing a doctor.
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