Court Temporarily Blocks Ruling Ordering Trump Admin to Allow Illegal Immigrant Teen to Obtain Abortion
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a ruling by a lower court that ordered the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to allow an illegal immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion “promptly and without delay.”
U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia issued the per curiam order on Thursday and will hear oral argument regarding the matter on Friday before making a decision on whether or not to grant the government’s emergency motion for a stay.
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“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” the three-judge panel wrote.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama, had ruled on Wednesday that the 17-year-old girl is “legally entitled” to an abortion, and that if the teen is not permitted to obtain the abortion she might suffer “irreparable injury” because she will have to give birth. She ordered that the girl be allowed to obtain an abortion either on Friday or Saturday.
According to reports, the teenager is from Central America and may be up to 15 weeks pregnant. She says she wants to abort her child, in part, because her parents had allegedly mistreated one of her siblings for becoming pregnant. She is currently in federal custody at an immigrant shelter in Texas.
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