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Do Migrant Teenagers Have Abortion Rights? Two Volatile Issues Collide in Court


By Robert Pear

    Sept. 29, 2018

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is claiming broad new authority to block access to abortions sought by undocumented immigrants under age 18 who are in its custody.

In a case that brings together two of the most volatile issues in American society, immigration and abortion, the Justice Department argued this past week before a federal appeals court that the government “has a strong, legitimate and profound interest in the life of the child in the womb.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/court-abortion-immigrants.html?partner=rss&emc=rss