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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Military Prosecuting Soldiers for Pregnancy


Below is my reaction to a story I read in Stars and Stripes via Military.com at http://www.military.com/…50,00.html

It talks about how the military is slightly lifting the ban on sexual relations between heterosexual unmarried soldiers in Afghanistan. That's basically a lot of double talk for a shift in orders/policy so that unmarried female soldiers that get pregnant in Afghanistan can not be prosecuted for having sexual relations.



Note. this ban is still in effect in the 173rd Division.



Voice Transcript follows:



I was reading an article on military.com and the section article originally written for stars and stripes and talks about a new order that was recently issued by the commander of the combined joint task force in Afghanistan and the this change and orders is interesting and a strange way I say interesting for the perspective that I see some very negative things about this icy and slight positive things about this as well and good that in a minute but the order essentially he is the ban on sex for soldiers in Afghanistan it's was previously established that unmarried men and women were not allowed to have sexual relations in a combat zone that means that a man and woman cannot have sex in a combat zone in and also within the borders it was not allowed for a mail for example to go into the living quarters of the female and vice versa even if it was like public living area maybe you two or three unmentioned in the same quarters and a woman might come in in a just to hang out or talk or watch TV or in a bar or something or whatever the case might be that was banned and same time they were not allowed to have sex either this is just for homosexuals by the way which is still banned even after the change orders but was changed is that it's no longer bands that means that they could have sex in Afghanistan today the thing is they're still not allowed to have sex basically within their living quarters so they could have sex you can do it in their living quarters today another aspect of the change in the bands that they can enter each other's living quarters if they happen to share living quarters with a neo-other people think that remains to remade after the greedy and the door has remained open and their living corkers permitting tent flap or were the case can be there but they basically have removed the ban make it okay to have sex but they have not been possible for them to have sex in a what I would call a safe place so if a man and woman in Afghanistan and this goes for contractors as well not just soldiers if they were to have sex there they would have to find some other place to have sex outside of their living quarters which seems to me to be rather dangerous that would insinuate that the adapter you know via a mop closet or you know go outside or something possibly in a vehicle that seems a little peculiar but what's really at the heart of this is that if a soldier is caught having sex they cannot be prosecuted for previously and does happen many times in Afghanistan soldiers were prosecuted when they were caught having sex with other soldiers now there's two ways that this could happen one of the could literally walking onto soldiers while they're in the act of having sex and two and does work its ugly soldier could be found to have had sex when they become pregnant to become pregnant in Afghanistan and your woman a female soldier odds are you had to have sex is no immaculate conception in Afghanistan for American soldiers or anybody else for that matter is what was happening is that female soldiers might become pregnant while in Afghanistan and they would be prosecuted for becoming pregnant now don't get me wrong for female soldier gets pregnant in a while they're in a combat zone you are not actually allowed to serve in combat but they can wish something I disagree with but they can no service supporting role in risk their lives almost as much in a 99.9% as much as soldier in combat role but if they were to become pregnant and no cause and effect they had sexual relations and that was against orders and they can be prosecuted for that I think that's crazy I think they soldiers should be allowed to have sexual relations when there are no in a situation where you know sick of living quarters may be something akin to apartments or barracks and it's semi private and clean and safe while for Ivan Kersey orders to me restate that they should use birth control with their religion doesn't prevent it so that people don't get pregnant woman when they're serving overseas but the concept that you could potentially targeted a female soldier just because she happened to get pregnant in a to be tried and convicted in the just seems crazy to me so they've made us know quarter step forward in removing the bands that they can't be prosecuted for him having been caught either in the act or with child for they haven't really given soldiers there they're due for being no responsible adults I think that's as good a position that's you know one more screwed opposition can like the don't ask don't tell policy so wanted brings to your attention the title of the article's ban on sex or soldiers in Afghanistan lifted... story by Drew Brown of stars and stripes

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