WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) filed a discrimination complaint against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on behalf of a doctor who was forced out of his job rather than comply with the Biden administration’s attempts to force him to participate in abortions.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Biden administration directed the VA to begin offering abortions and abortion counseling to service members. Last December, the Trump Justice Department (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) reversed its judgment allowing such abortions.
On August 6, the ACLJ announced it has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a client identified as “Dr. Mohr,” who in 2017 ascended to the role of Chief of Medicine at his VA facility. In 2022, he and his team filed conscientious objection wavers over the Biden abortion policy but was told by his medical director to “either get on board or find another job.” He resigned in June 2023.
In December 2025, with the abortion policy no longer in effect, he applied to return to a position at the same facility. He was accepted, but the same leadership that had originally forced him out was still in place at the center and personally rescinded his job offer in March without explanation, just weeks before he was slated to begin.
“Federal law could not be clearer,” the ACLJ’s Olivia Summers said. “Title VII protects employees from employer discrimination on the basis of religion, and the Coats-Snowe Amendment provides additional protections for health care professionals who decline to participate in, refer for, or facilitate abortions. These statutes exist for precisely this situation.”
The steady rise of “woke” ideology within the military that has persisted and grown since the Clinton years despite the presidencies of Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump’s first administration, were intensified by former President Joe Biden, who upon taking office quickly moved to open the military to recruits suffering from gender dysphoria in a reversal of Trump policy, then had Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin launch a review of supposed “domestic extremism” within the military that many saw as a pretext to purge conservative views from the ranks.
Under Biden, the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Secret Service, State Department, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, National Security Agency, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Customs & Border Protection, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Transportation Security Administration, FEMA, and more all celebrated Pride Month with social media posts, official messages, rainbow flags, videos, and more.
In March 2023, the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) published an update on the administration’s work to infuse the armed forces with left-wing gender ideology, ranging from enforcement of preferred pronouns to allowing cross-dressing and the use of opposite-sex showers and restrooms on military bases to making it harder to access information on the negative consequences of such policies. Last November, the Pentagon requested an additional $114.7 million for diversity programs in the upcoming fiscal year, representing $269.2 million in taxpayer dollars just on military diversity since Biden took office.
Until December 2022, Biden’s Pentagon leaders also enforced COVID-19 vaccine mandates on American service men and women, provoking lawsuits and threatening soldier and pilot shortages in the tens of thousands that only added to broader problems of force strength, troop morale, and public confidence.
In the first month of his second administration, Trump began the reversal of past presidents’ politicization of the military by reinstating soldiers who had been discharged over COVID shots with their former ranks, back pay, and benefits; re-establishing a ban on service members afflicted with gender dysphoria; and ordering the elimination of “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” (DEI) programs from the military and discharge of service members afflicted with gender confusion. The administration has also banned LGBT “Pride” and “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) flags from being flown at U.S. embassies and other State Department facilities and ended observation of all identity-based “cultural awareness” months.
In June, a VA memo directed all of its facilities to “eliminate all DEI/DEIA programs, gender-identity based and gender-ideology based initiatives, and any activities, internal or external, that promote gender identity or gender ideology.”