The undocumented 17-year-old Central American girl now in Texas at the middle of a court battle juxtaposing abortion and immigration had an abortion Wednesday morning before the Department of Justice could even appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Though the case is technically over, it opened an unusual can of worms, one still worth sorting through.
While proponents of abortion say the case surrounding the girl who entered the U.S. illegally nine weeks pregnant, but wanting an abortion, is solely about abortion rights, it’s actually more about the intersection of immigrant rights and abortion — which is what makes it so complicated. After several back and forth court rulings, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. sided with the girl’s desire, sent the case to a lower court, which said the girl could get an abortion “promptly and without delay.”
