By Dave Andrusko As part of an ongoing challenge, the ACLU said today that it has asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a temporary restraining order so a 17-year-old undocumented woman identified as “Jane Moe” can obtain an abortion. If she succeeds, she would be the fourth undocumented pregnant teenager …
Continue reading "ACLU seeks TRO to allow fourth undocumented teenager to abort"By Dave Andrusko When we wrote about the case of “Jane Doe,” the undocumented teenager from Central America who wanted to abort, second only to the life of that individual child in importance was that the ACLU was seeking to set a precedent so that hundreds, and eventually thousands, of undocumented teenagers could abort. As …
Continue reading "Justice Department asks Supreme Court to vacate D.C. Circuit ruling in “Jane Doe’s” abortion, asks for disciplinary action against her lawyers"By Dave Andrusko The 17-year-old undocumented teenager, the center of a month-long legal battle, aborted her 16 week-old baby this morning, according to a tweet from the ACLU. Her abortion came a day after the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a prior decision by a three-judge panel of the same court that had …
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