E. Scott Lloyd- The Trump official who tried to stop a detained immigrant from getting an abortion

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Maddow did a great segment on this issue tonight.



The Trump official who tried to stop a detained immigrant from getting an abortion



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/26/the-trump-official-who-tried-to-stop-a-detained-immigrant-from-getting-an-abortion/?utm_term=.bb1274f821a2

by Rachel Siegel October 26 at 10:05 AM



Long before he became the head of a federal office for resettling refugees, E. Scott Lloyd built a career as a champion of religious values, holding strong antiabortion views that have now thrust him into the center of a national controversy.

His past work has also made him a target of critics who argue he is ill-prepared for his current role as director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a position he assumed in March within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Recently, the Trump appointee played a prominent role in impeding a detained undocumented teenager from obtaining an abortion, prompting a lawsuit in federal court.

Last week, HHS — which is responsible for caring for detained unaccompanied minors — said “there is no constitutional right” for an immigrant minor to have an elective abortion while in federal custody.




E. Scott Lloyd. (Health & Human Services)

Lloyd has personally intervened to try to persuade unaccompanied minor girls not to have abortions, according to an HHS official.

“When there’s a child in the program who is pregnant, he has been reaching out to her and trying to help as much as possible with life-affirming options,” the spokesman said. “He by law has custody of these children, and just like a foster parent, he knows that that’s a lot of responsibility and he is going to make choices that he thinks are best for both the mother and the child.”



The official declined to say whether those girls had been blocked from getting the procedure, as in the case of the 17-year-old detained in Texas and identified in court papers as “Jane Doe.”
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The New York Times editorial board has called Lloyd an antiabortion “crusader.” The liberal Washington Post opinion columnist Ruth Marcus labeled him an “antiabortion zealot.”.......................

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1. Zealot

In addition to being anti-abortion, he's also associated with defending the "sanctity of marriage"

Real scumbag.

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2. Isn't he supposed to make decisions based on law, not his personal religious views? nt

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3. Re: E. Scott Lloyd and the Center for Morality in Public Life

The CFMPL has a barely used Twitter account: https://twitter.com/cfmpl

And a website: http://cfmpl.org/

It's associated with another Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ethikapolitika

Scott Lloyd

Scott Lloyd is the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Mr. Lloyd joins ORR from the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal and charitable organization, where he served as an attorney in the Public Policy office. In that capacity, he helped shape the organization’s humanitarian response and led its policy advocacy on behalf of the ethnic and religious minorities who are victims of ISIS.

Before joining the Knights, he worked in private practice, at the Department of Health and Human Services (IOS/OGC), and on Capitol Hill (Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources). Scott was an elementary English and Social Studies teacher before attending law school.

Mr. Lloyd received his undergraduate education at James Madison University and earned his J.D. at Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He is licensed in Virginia, where he resides with his wife, Ann, and their six children.

Here are More than 1,000 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government

By Al Shaw and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, March 8, 2017
Updated August 31, 2017

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Health and Human Services Edward Scott Lloyd Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement 3/24/2017

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This list represents Trump administration political appointees made between Jan. 20 and July 31, according to the Office of Personnel Management. A release of new government data in August mostly included political appointees made after Jan. 30. Several of the officials on this list have since moved to other agencies or left the federal government.

Trump Appoints New Director of ORR
3/28/2017

President Appoints New Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Sources indicate that late last week, President Trump appointed Edward Scott Lloyd to be the new Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ... Lloyd, who goes by the name Scott, was born and raised in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. Prior to joining ORR, he was Senior Policy Coordinator to the Knights of Columbus a Catholic fraternal and charitable organization, where he served as an attorney in the Public Policy office. In that capacity, he helped shape the organization’s humanitarian response and led its policy advocacy on behalf of the ethnic and religious minorities who are the victims of ISIS.
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Background on Lloyd.. Before working for the Knight's of Columbus, Lloyd, previously worked in the General Counsel's Office of the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services during the Bush Administration, where he co-authored the 2008 "conscience rule" that protected doctors and other health services providers from coercion or intimidation. Later, at the General Law Division, he handled employment and medical malpractice defense litigation. ... Lloyd also worked in private practice with the law firm of Wood, Maines, & Nolan, PC, in Arlington, Virginia, as Of Counsel. And he worked on Capitol Hill for the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources.

Lloyd earned his law degree at Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. He received his undergraduate education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia Bar. ... While at Catholic University, Scott served as a research assistant in the school's Law & Religion Program. In that capacity, Scott assisted in representing the Schiavo family during the famous case, Schindler v. Schiavo.

Prior to his appointment to ORR, Lloyd served on the Board of Directors of the Front Royal Pregnancy Center and is Vice Chairman and co-founder of the WitnessWorks Foundation for a Culture of Life. He was a contributing writer at HLI America, as well as Veritas Splendor and the Center for Morality in Public Life's Ethika Politka. Lloyd also was a member of the John Carroll Society, Brent Society and the Federalist Society. ... Lloyd is licensed in Virginia, where he resides with his wife, Ann, and their six children.