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Lawmakers hear women veterans on healthcare gaps, suicide risk, rural access and federal policy changes
Summary
Multiple veterans, advocates and service‑organization leaders testified to the Assembly committee about gender‑specific health needs, rising suicide risk among women veterans, barriers in rural areas, military sexual trauma, and concerns about recent federal reversals on diversity and inclusion.
The Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee convened a hearing focused on the needs of women veterans, hearing testimony from veterans, service‑organization leaders and advocates who urged state action on gender‑specific health care, suicide prevention, rural access and protections for women veterans' history and benefits.
Brenda Sue Fulton, executive director of the Army Women's Foundation and a West Point graduate and former senior official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, criticized recent federal personnel and policy changes that she said are erasing women from military history and undermining veterans' services. "This is the most anti‑veteran administration in American history," Fulton said in testimony, urging state officials to defend…
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