Senior veteran reporter-journalist Louis Martinz of ABC News reported June 28 that “last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing states to ban abortion will not stop the U.S. military from permitting its medical provisions to continue to perform abortions in cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life would be endangered by carrying pregnancy to term.”

The Supreme Court’s decision, handed down June 24, had raised questions about the military’s medical system and how it would be allowed to provide access to covered abortions even in states that have banned or plan to ban the procedure.

The courts decision does not prohibit the Department from continuing to perform covered abortions, consistent with federal law.

“There will be no interruption to this care,” Gil Cisneros Jr., the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, wrote in a memo this week to top Pentagon officials.

“Health care providers will continue to follow existing department policy, and the leadership of military medical treatment facilities will implement measures to ensure continued access to care,” Cisneros said.

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.

The decision was enough to send abortion control back to individual states.

The ruling gives states the power to set abortion law which means little is likely to change in New York as this state passed in 2019 the Reproductive Health Act, which enshrined Roe v. Wade into state law and allows an abortion to be performed up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.

However, the ruling could cause out-of-state residents to flock to New York clinics.

The moment the draft opinion was revealed, New York officials sprang into action, promising to welcome those from out of state and proposing legislation to further protect abortion rights.