Biden’s Abortion Offer for Vets Falls Flat as GOP Aims to End It

President Biden‘s move to allow Department of Veterans Affairs facilities to provide abortions in limited circumstances is barely expanding access to the procedure nationwide, even as conservatives seek to block the option in court and Congress.

The VA provided just 34 abortions from September, when the agency released the new policy, through February, according to a VA letter to members of Congress that was obtained by Bloomberg Government. That’s far below the department’s estimate that it would provide or pay for 1,000 in the policy’s first year.

The slow traction of the VA’s new policy demonstrates how few ...