{"id":204782,"date":"2019-06-17T06:11:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204782"},"modified":"2019-06-17T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:12:41","slug":"court-allows-facilitating-abortions-for-undocumented-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/court-allows-facilitating-abortions-for-undocumented-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Court: Government must allow taxpayer-funded abortions for undocumented minors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit\u00a0blocked<\/a> a Trump administration ruling that prevented undocumented teens under the government\u2019s care from getting taxpayer-funded abortions<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to the 2017 policy, minors in government shelters or holding facilities were not permitted access to abortion facilities. Then-director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Scott Lloyd, whose pro-life track record includes representing the parents of Terri Schiavo in court, has <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> that he does not believe in the dubious \u201cconstitutional right\u201d to abortion, nor that it is \u201chealth care.\u201d Lloyd thus argued it was not required for the ORR to provide it routinely to undocumented immigrants in federal care. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a memo<\/a>, Lloyd said that in the case of rape, \u201cIf the young woman was to go on to regret her abortion and experience it as a trauma, ORR will have had a hand in causing that trauma, and I am unwilling to put this young woman or ORR in that position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n