Tue Nov 15, 2022 – 4:38 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Illegal immigrant children in federal custody must be allowed access to abortions, according to a recent directive from the Biden administration’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
The November 10 directive from the ORR, a subdivision of the Department of Health & Human Services’ Administration for Children & Families, declared that “ORR staff and care providers must not prevent UC [unaccompanied children] from accessing legal abortion-related services and that ORR staff and care providers must make all reasonable efforts to facilitate access to these services if requested by the UC.”
This includes transporting abortion-seeking minors housed in pro-life states to abortion-friendly ones, and “prioritiz[ing] placement of pregnant UC and UC who are victims of sexual-based crimes in states without abortion bans and with broad access to reproductive health care for minors.”
President Joe Biden has presided over a surge of illegals entering the United States and being released inside the country following the reversal of several Trump-era border policies, such as the previous administration’s third-country agreements with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to have them hold refugees while their applications for political asylum
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