SUPREME COURT VACATES RULING GRANTING ABORTION RIGHTS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Supreme Court vacates ruling granting abortion rights to illegal immigrants

Sends case back to lower courts for more legal jousting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Monday, June 4, 2018

The Supreme Court on Monday erased a lower appeals court’s ruling that had found illegal immigrant teens in federal custody had a constitutional right to abortions facilitated by the U.S. government.

The ruling, delivered in an unsigned opinion, does not settle the big constitutional issues, but it does reset the playing field, erasing a precedent that had said illegal immigrants had abortion rights similar to an American held in government custody.

The case is one of a series of legal battles that erupted from the surge of illegal immigrant families and Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) over the last five years.

In the case of unaccompanied children, some of them arrived at the border pregnant, and when taken into custody demanded an abortion that, most likely, would have been illegal in their home countries.

Trump administration officials signed off on a few abortions but sought to impose conditions on some of the teens, such as informing their parents back in their home countries and pushing them to seek counseling from pro-life crisis pregnancy organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the teens, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sided with them, arguing that they deserved to have their abortions in the U.S. and she wouldn’t countenance sending them back to their home countries where the procedure might be illegal.

She first ruled on a specific teenager, whose name was shielded and was known in court papers as Jane Doe, granting her abortion rights. That’s the case that made its way to the high court, and which the justices vacated Monday.

“Doe’s individual claim for injunctive relief — the only claim addressed by the D. C. Circuit — became moot after the abortion,” the Supreme Court said.

But the broader class action case is still winding its way through the lower courts, and could end up back before the justices before long.

In the initial Doe case the Trump administration had lodged a serious allegation of misconduct against the ACLU lawyers, arguing they misled the court and rushed to get Doe an abortion as soon as one of the previous rulings was issued.

The Justice Department had asked for the ACLU lawyers to be punished.

The Supreme Court said it took those accusations “seriously,” but declined to get involved in the discipline issue, saying it didn’t need to decide that in order to vacate the abortion-rights ruling.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/4/scotus-vacates-ruling-abortion-rights-illegals/?

My comments: So, come one, come all, to the U.S. for your Abortion. It is your Sacred Right, as it was for all the PAGAN Nations that preceded the U.S.