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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:35 AM Dec 2017

Court orders Trump administration to give immigrant teens abortion access

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration must allow access to abortion for two pregnant teenagers who are in the country illegally, escalating a high-profile legal fight.

Judge Tanya Chutkan put her order on hold, however, to give the U.S. Justice Department time to appeal her ruling.

The Justice Department filed its notice of appeal shortly afterward to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The judge’s temporary restraining order marked the latest chapter in a legal dispute with the Trump administration over whether minors who are illegal immigrants have the right to seek an abortion during their detention.

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#POLITICS DECEMBER 18, 2017 / 9:52 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Sarah N. Lynch
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-abortion/court-orders-trump-administration-to-give-immigrant-teens-abortion-access-idUSKBN1ED08B

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Court orders Trump administration to give immigrant teens abortion access (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2017 OP

This is good news Gothmog Dec 2017 #1

"Judge Tanya Chutkan put her order on hold, HOWEVER, to give the US DOJ time to appeal her ruling".. Pachamama Dec 2017 #2

It was only a 24 hour hold... Princess Turandot Dec 2017 #5

I'm surprised they don't drive the girls to the doctors themselves MurrayDelph Dec 2017 #3

You don't understand. Pregnancy, childbirth, and poverty are punishment for bad women... Hekate Dec 2017 #4

Gothmog

(145,293 posts)

1. This is good news

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 01:05 AM

Dec 2017

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)

2. "Judge Tanya Chutkan put her order on hold, HOWEVER, to give the US DOJ time to appeal her ruling"..

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:46 AM

Dec 2017

Good news....or not so good news?

Pregnancy can't be put on hold....

So Trump and the DOJ and Fundie's want to make these late term abortions by delaying?

Or forced pregnancy and giving birth....

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)

5. It was only a 24 hour hold...

Reply to Pachamama (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 02:03 PM

Dec 2017

She's not up to anything. This is the same judge who ordered the feds to step aside in the earlier case, and allow a teenage girl being held in Texas to leave the facilities in order to get an abortion.

They've appealed the case of one of the two girls already, to SCOTUS. They apparently did not appeal the other case, where the girl is already 22 weeks pregnant, so I assume that means that she'll be able to go to a clinic shortly. (The first girl is only 10 weeks pregnant.)

MurrayDelph

(5,299 posts)

3. I'm surprised they don't drive the girls to the doctors themselves

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:45 PM

Dec 2017

since the only thing they hate more than women making choices for their own bodies is an immigrant giving birth to a baby who would be a citizen.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)

4. You don't understand. Pregnancy, childbirth, and poverty are punishment for bad women...

Reply to MurrayDelph (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:52 PM

Dec 2017

...who have unauthorized sex. The women (or girls) must be visibly punished.

Think about it that way for a few minutes and see how it changes your perspective of the antichoice movement.

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