The administration issued a new policy explicitly preventing ORR staff from blocking minors in their care from obtaining abortions or disclosing their pregnancies.
After three years of arguing in court to block pregnant, undocumented teenagers in government custody from obtaining abortions, the Trump administration dropped the fight on Tuesday, announcing it had officiallyThe new policy makes clear that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the branch of the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees undocumented minors and those seeking asylum in the US, must allow teenagers in its custody to obtain abortions.
The latest change in policy means that the Trump administration is giving up the fight altogether. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit against the Trump administration,notifying the court that it was dropping the case in light of the new policy.
The Trump administration continued to press the fight; in June 2019, the DC Circuit issued an 81-page opinion concluding that the administration’s policy. The government decided to not petition the US Supreme Court to challenge that ruling. Since then, the ACLU and the Trump administration have been in negotiations over a new ORR policy that would help settle the case.
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