GOP Lawmakers: Feds Break Law to Drive Illegal Immigrants to Get Abortions; Feds Send Pregnant Migrant Teens to States Where They Can Get Abortions

GOP lawmakers: Feds break law to drive illegal immigrants to get abortions:

The Biden administration is driving illegal immigrant girls to states where they can get late-term abortions, Republican lawmakers charged, accusing the president’s team of breaking a federal law that prohibits the use of taxpayer money to facilitate the procedure.

The issue of illegal immigrants and abortion has long simmered within the broader immigration debate. But it has taken on new urgency after the Supreme Court’s ruling in June overturned the federal constitutional guarantee of abortion rights and returned the issue to the states.

The Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that cares for illegal immigrant juveniles who arrive at the border without parents, is working to ensure pregnant girls end up in states where abortions are still allowed.

In instances where a girl’s pregnancy is too far along for her to be flown safely, that means driving her to a state where late-term abortions are still allowed, the GOP members of Congress said in their letter dated Friday.

“We are astounded that we have to explain the horror of driving a pregnant minor, whose unborn child is well past the point of viability, to a state where a provider will perform an elective late-term abortion. Driving a pregnant minor to another state for a late-term abortion is not a legal use of taxpayer dollars,” said the lawmakers, led by Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican.

The Washington Times first reported in July on the Biden administration‘s abortion transportation policy over the summer, after officials revealed its existence in a court filing.

Minors who come to the border without parents are called unaccompanied alien children, or UACs. Under federal law and court rulings, most of them must be turned over to Health and Human Services for care in shelters while they await sponsors to pick them up. —>READ MORE HERE

Feds send pregnant migrant teens to states where they can get abortions:

The Biden administration says it is making sure pregnant teens crossing the southern border as part of an illegal surge are placed in states where they can obtain legal abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling this summer.

Even though bed space for minors is at a premium, the administration has revealed in court documents that it is reserving some to ensure pregnant girls have landing spots in licensed facilities in abortion-friendly states, even if it means others end up in unlicensed facilities.

Minors who come to the border without parents are called unaccompanied alien children, or UACs. Under federal law and court rulings, most of them must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services for care while they await sponsors to pick them up.

“Pregnant children are considered particularly vulnerable children under the [Emergency Intake Sites] settlement agreement, and thus settlement considerations, along with recent actions by state governments and the U.S. Supreme Court, have further influenced ORR’s decision-making so that it can keep appropriate licensed placements open and available for a pregnant child who may need access to medical care,” the administration told U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee in court filings last week. HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) oversees those children.

The focus on abortion is not sitting well with Republicans.

“In a new low, even for the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, President Biden apparently only wants pregnant minors who illegally cross our southern border to be placed in states where they can get an abortion,” said Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican. “His priority seems to be increasing abortions in America, rather than stopping illegal immigration or protecting the lives of children —>READ MORE HERE

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