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Robert Serge
To all my fellow veterans friends and family my we all remember
From: lbogle@dav.org
To: booperser@live.com
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:08:42 -0500
Subject: Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act of 2015
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Senators Patty Murray, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jon Tester, Tammy Baldwin, Bernie Sanders, and Michael Bennet recently introduced S. 469, the "Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act of 2015," a bill that if enacted would improve reproductive assistance and related care for veterans who were severely injured to the extent that reproduction would otherwise not be possible without medical intervention.
The bill would provide for voluntary collection and preservation by the Department of Defense of genetic material post-injury to be used later should a severely injured veteran desire to have children. The bill would also provide fertility counseling and treatment in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to such injured veterans, and promote further VA research into reproduction and infertility in the veteran population. The bill would also require certain improvements in VA's women veterans contact center, and would modify an existing authority for VA to conduct counseling in retreat settings for women veterans newly separated from military service.
While DAV has not received national resolutions from our membership covering all these precise purposes, in accordance with DAV's statement of policy in National Resolution No. 1, stating in part, "[O]ur first duty as an organization is to assist the service-connected disabled...," and in accordance with DAV's Constitution and By-laws, DAV supports the purposes of this bill, as it would deal directly and effectively with the health care needs of wartime service-disabled veterans.
Please use the prepared letter associated with this alert, or draft your own letter, to urge your Senators to co-sponsor this bill and to work to pass it as soon as possible. Strong support from DAV members and those who care about wounded and injured veterans will give Congress the will to enact this legislation into law.
As always, thank you for your advocacy for issues DAV believes are important for our wounded, injured and ill wartime veterans. Your activism in the Commander's Action Network makes DAV a more effective advocate in our national legislative program.
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