U.S. court rules against Trump administration in immigrant teen abortion case
June 14, 2019
By Mica Rosenberg
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that the U.S. government cannot deny access to abortions for unaccompanied immigrant minors in federal custody, delivering a blow to a Trump administration policy.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a lower court decision that found the government cannot unduly burden the ability of a woman to obtain an abortion under established Supreme Court precedent.
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The case involves the intersection of two divisive social issues on which Republican President Donald Trump has taken a hard line: abortion and immigration.
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