The Trump administrations Orwellian plan to gut Roe v. Wade

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The Trump administration’s Orwellian plan to gut Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court may soon weigh in on whether the government can physically detain people to prevent them from having an abortion.
Ian Millhiser
Dec 18, 2017, 12:03 pm


Two women, known by the pseudonyms “Jane Roe” and “Jane Poe,” are being held at federal facilities for undocumented minors who enter the country without an adult guardian. They are pregnant and want abortions. Yet they cannot obtain one because the Trump administration will not let them leave the facility to obtain the medical care they seek.

If this scenario sounds familiar, it should. Last October, the Trump administration made a similar attempt to hold a woman prisoner to prevent her from terminating her pregnancy. The woman eventually received her abortion, but only after she obtained a federal court order.

But that court order may have only taken effect because of a tactical error by Trump administration lawyers, who delayed seeking review in the Supreme Court until after the woman already obtained her abortion. These lawyers are unlikely to repeat this error now that Roe and Poe seek a similar court order.

According to court papers filed Friday, time is running out for the teens to get an abortion.

That means that, as soon as this week, the Supreme Court is likely to weigh in on whether the federal government can physically detain a woman to prevent her from obtaining an abortion.

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-roe-v-wade-0dd7ab0e9c73/