WASHINGTON, D.C., December 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A Trump Administration official says that rape and abortion are both forms of violence and one form of violence cannot “cure” another.
Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said in a memo released Thursday that the violence of abortion does not cure the violence of sexual assault.
Lloyd said in the memo he was convinced that assisting with an abortion for an unaccompanied illegal immigrant minor was not in the girl’s best interest and he could not authorize it, and that “abortion does not here cure the reality that she is the victim of an assault.”
“To decline to assist in an abortion here is to decline to participate in violence against an innocent life,” Lloyd stated.
The memo was included in a filing Thursday by the government, the AP reports, in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU over whether HHS’s responsibility for the unaccompanied minors in its care also includes facilitating abortions.
HHS declined to comment on whether Lloyd’s memo denoted the department’s official policy.
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