Doug Lamborn Just Makes Stuff Up, "Prime Directive" Edition

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by: Colorado Pols

We nearly missed this arrow of flaming untruth from GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs on Friday afternoon, responding negatively to a new policy from the Department of Defense assisting service members stationed in anti-abortion states with obtaining care:

While nobody ever accused Rep. Lamborn of being a compelling advocate for or against any policy, there are a few problems with this statement worth pointing out. First and foremost, it is not now nor has it ever been the American military’s job to stop people from getting abortions, and we’re pretty sure that’s not a country we ever want to live in if it were. Second,

The “Prime Directive” is science fiction. There are either no Trekkers on Lamborn’s staff to tell him, or there is one who doesn’t know when sci-fi references are inappropriate.

Finally, as Rep. Lamborn knows, access to abortion is not a problem for his thousands of military constituents, even in conservative El Paso County, due to the state of Colorado’s robust legal protections for abortion rights. Members of the military generally do not get to pick where they are assigned, so members who grew up with rights enjoyed in one state may find themselves deprived of those rights through no fault of their own. That’s why the DoD’s policy to help service members in anti-choice states obtain care is even more necessary in a post-Roe world.

By the 23rd Century, the issue of abortion rights will (hopefully) be settled for good.

5 thoughts on “Doug Lamborn Just Makes Stuff Up, “Prime Directive” Edition”

spaceman2021 says:

February 22, 2023 at 3:21 pm

So a fetus is now a service member? What about the constitutional right to travel, Doug?

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EPCisgreat says:

February 22, 2023 at 4:14 pm

I wonder what Lamborn's prospects are now that the complete looney tune brigade has taken over the El Paso GOP. He is a pretty conventional politician despite his feeble attempts to mollify the MAGAs, and might not be extreme enough to make it through the primary next year.

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JohnNorthofDenver says:

February 22, 2023 at 4:37 pm

Doug Lamborn Representative of Omni Consumer Products

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Genghis says:

February 22, 2023 at 7:47 pm

lol

I seem to recall Republicans cheering vigorously whenever the thankfully still-dead Rush Limbaugh bellowed that the military's job is to "kill people and break things." In any event, Lamborn remains a vacuous bit of flotsam.

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JohnInDenver says:

February 22, 2023 at 9:17 pm

Star Trek's "Prime Directive" is a follow-on. New Mexico had a writer who used the concept earlier.

Jack Williamson's novelette "With Folded Hands" (1947), later rewritten as the novel The Humanoids, deals with robot servants whose prime directive is "To Serve and Obey, And Guard Men From Harm".

Last I checked, the American military has a variety of instructions — I don't think any are labelled "directives."

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