Fri Jul 21, 2023 - 12:13 pm EDTFri Jul 21, 2023 - 12:18 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Since May of 2022, John Francis Kirby, a retired rear admiral, has been serving as Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the Biden White House. One might think that this role — the spokesman for national security — wouldn’t include abortion activism. But this is the Biden White House, and so you’d be wrong. During a press briefing, a journalist asked him a policy on why abortion was “critical to military readiness.” Kirby promptly got passionate. “I’m really glad you asked that question,” he replied. “No, I really am. One in five members of the U.S. military are women. Twenty percent. We’re an all-volunteer force. Nobody’s forcing you to go — you volunteer to go. I’m going to do this for a few years, or for my life — and it might cost me my life to do it.” John Kirby goes on a minutes-long tirade trying to explain why abortion is necessary for military readiness. …