“…Obviously, this was also an attempt to avoid further outcomes stemming from any unintended pregnancies and/or testing military abortion restrictions (Holt, Grindlay, Taskier, & Grossman, ; Manski, Grindlay, Burns, Holt, & Grossman, ). For 2 months in 2009, pregnancy was one reason leading to an initiation of court‐martial proceedings (Fitzgerald et al., ). While this order was quickly rescinded, it still provided an informal threat and sometimes produced outcomes of self‐ or peer‐inflicted abortions, especially if the pregnancy followed MST and/or the danger of an out‐of‐combat‐zone medical evacuation (ACOG, ; Cohen et al., ; Grindlay et al., ; Holt et al., ; Jacobson & Jensen, ; Lindberg, ; Polomano & Stringer, ).…”