DC Circuit Rules Noncitizens Have A Constitutional Right To U.S. Abortions

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DC Circuit Rules Noncitizens Have A Constitutional Right To U.S. Abortions

J.D. is an unaccompanied minor who illegally entered the United States in September seeking an abortion and is now the focus of the federal court system and national media.

By Margot Cleveland OCTOBER 25, 2017

There’s a disturbing (and unnoticed) irony underlying the American Civil Liberties Union’s efforts to secure an abortion for J.D.—the unaccompanied minor who illegally entered the United States in September and is now the focus of the federal court system and national media.

As I detailed on Monday, a federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration’s policy of forbidding refugee shelters from facilitating abortions for alien minors in their custody violates Roe v. Wade and its progeny. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, a President Obama appointee, held the policy places “a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion,” and thus constitutes an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion under Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Chutkan ordered the government “to transport J.D. — or allow J.D. to be transported by” her court-appointed guardian to obtain an abortion.   

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The Brief: What’s next for pregnant, undocumented teen after abortion ruling?

·         by Cassandra Pollock

·         Oct. 25, 2017

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Will the Trump administration appeal Tuesday's ruling that granted an undocumented immigrant minor immediate abortion access to the U.S. Supreme Court? 

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After court battle, undocumented teen in Texas gets abortion requested weeks ago

·         by Giulia Afiune

·         Oct. 25, 2017

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An undocumented teenager under federal custody in Texas got an abortion she had been seeking for weeks Wednesday morning, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. 

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October 27, 2017

The Texas chain-migration abortion

By Monica Showalter

Abortion advocates were dancing with glee when a federal judge ruled that a pregnant teenage illegal immigant in a Texas detention center could go get the abortion she wanted at taxpayer expense. The federal government had been discouraging the facilitation of the act and the shelter at which she was staying did not want to 'facilitate the killing by so much as driving her to the abortion mill.

She didn't want the anchor baby. And given her apparent militancy (though, to be fair, we are only hearing from her from the word of the activists), it looks as though she doesn't particularly want to stay here, being willing to throw out that 'advantage.' More likely, knowing she was pregnant, she seems to have made the decision to come to the U.S. for a free abortion, if for nothing else, the presence of leftwing lawyers who would ensure it would happen. Abortion is not available, at least legally, in the Central American country of her citizenship. Now her victory in court for her right to kill her 16-week old unborn baby opens the gate for the U.S. to become a sanctuary state for any illegal who wants a free abortion.            http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=926503