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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiberty Counsel: Trump Administration Can Ignore Ruling Allowing Abortion For Undocumented Teens
Mat Staver, the chairman of the Religious Right legal group Liberty Counsel, responded to a federal judges order that two undocumented teenagers be allowed to access abortion by saying that the Trump administration would be well within their rights to refuse to enforce the ruling.
This is the second high-profile case involving teens in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, being denied access to abortion.
In a press release, Staver wrote that the judges decision forces the American taxpayers to fund human genocide and can simply be ignored by the administration:
This outrageous decision is an example of judicial activism and is shameful, said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. This decision forces the American taxpayers to fund human genocide. An additional irony is that an illegal minor can require Americans to abort her child which otherwise would soon be born as an American citizen. The judge totally ignores the deadly harm to the child. President Trump and the administration would be well within their rights to refuse to enforce this extreme opinion, said Staver.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liberty-counsel-trump-administration-can-ignore-ruling-allowing-abortion-for-undocumented-teens/
This is the second high-profile case involving teens in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, being denied access to abortion.
In a press release, Staver wrote that the judges decision forces the American taxpayers to fund human genocide and can simply be ignored by the administration:
This outrageous decision is an example of judicial activism and is shameful, said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. This decision forces the American taxpayers to fund human genocide. An additional irony is that an illegal minor can require Americans to abort her child which otherwise would soon be born as an American citizen. The judge totally ignores the deadly harm to the child. President Trump and the administration would be well within their rights to refuse to enforce this extreme opinion, said Staver.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liberty-counsel-trump-administration-can-ignore-ruling-allowing-abortion-for-undocumented-teens/
So now they're comparing abortion to genocide? God the religious right are sick!
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Liberty Counsel: Trump Administration Can Ignore Ruling Allowing Abortion For Undocumented Teens (Original Post)
Initech
Dec 2017
OP
If I recall, in the previous case the abortion was paid for with private funds
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Dec 2017
#2
So these teenagers will be forced to carry to term? Any chance the births will be in the US?
Freethinker65
Dec 2017
#3
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)1. This would be contempt and the start of a constitutional crisis
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)2. If I recall, in the previous case the abortion was paid for with private funds
The same could be done in this case. So much for the "taxpayers shouldn't pay for abortions" bullshit argument. All these assholes want to do is enforce their narrow religious view of the place of women in the world on the rest of the country.
Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)3. So these teenagers will be forced to carry to term? Any chance the births will be in the US?
procon
(15,805 posts)4. The religious right, cloaked in their self righteous, authoritarian patriarchy,
always omit any mention of the legal and Constitutional Rights of the broodmares... er, I mean, young women to make their own decisions regarding self determination.