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No Choice for Immigrants

Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody

By Kari Lydersen

In January 2008, a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl in the care of Commonwealth Catholic Charities of Richmond, Va., told staff members she was pregnant and wanted an abortion. The girl was one of about 600 youth in the country who are part of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s program for unaccompanied, undocumented minors and refugee youth seeking asylum. The U.S. government… return to article

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