‘You can’t just get up and leave’: The outsized impact of abortion rights rollback on the military
Conflicted. Confused. Defeated. Dejected. These are some of the emotions that ran through Sgt. Reagan Hasenfratz last month when news broke that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade.
The 24-year-old Army medic, deployed overseas, described a unique internal conflict as a service member hearing the news.
“I enlisted in the military to serve my country and save people’s lives and serve the people of the United States. But it had felt like my personal freedoms were being taken away in that moment and the personal freedoms of the people that I fight for,” she says, making clear her perspective is hers alone and does not represent the Department of Defense or the Army.