Washington, DC – Earlier today, Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participated in an Appropriations Committee debate on the Republican-proposed Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies spending bill for Fiscal Year 2025, which seeks to restrict essential reproductive health care services and eliminate abortion counseling altogether at Veterans Affairs medical centers, potentially impacting the nearly one million women Veterans of childbearing age who may depend on the agency for their health care. Rep. Frankel spoke in support of an amendment that would safeguard these vital services for Veterans.