ACLU’s legal fight to make Uncle Sam help with abortions

Published January 12, 2018 8:22pm ET



On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency motion demanding that the government facilitate a late-term abortion for “Jane Moe.”

Moe, who is purportedly 17, is now the fourth plaintiff the ACLU has added to the Garza v. Hargan lawsuit, which challenges the constitutionality of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s refusal to facilitate abortions for the girls in their care. The presiding judge in the Garza case, Obama-appointee Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, previously held that minors illegally present in the U.S., and detained by the ORR, have a constitutional right to an abortion. The government appealed Chutkan’s original ruling to the D.C. Circuit, and in a split-decision with a three-judge dissent, the federal appellate court upheld Chutkan’s preliminary ruling in favor of the Jane Doe plaintiff.

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