Posted on 11/07/2017 3:26:50 PM PST by Morgana
An undocumented immigrant teen who aborted her unborn baby after a highly publicized legal battle now needs mental health treatment, the government said Monday.
Like so many women who have aborted their unborn babies, it appears that this vulnerable young woman is struggling with her decision. However, the ACLU has been trying to thwart the government’s efforts.
On Monday, the Trump administration asked a federal judge to overturn a gag order that prevents them from sharing with doctors or other caregivers that the young woman had an abortion, the Washington Times reports.
They argued that the abortion is important information that should be shared with doctors and mental health professionals in order to help treat “Jane Doe,” a 17-year-old who crossed the Texas border illegally and is staying in a taxpayer-funded shelter.
Here’s more from the report:
U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, an Obama appointee to the federal bench, had imposed severe restrictions on the government’s ability to communicate about the juvenile girl’s abortion, citing privacy laws. The Trump administration said it needs those rules relaxed in order to secure the best care for the 17-year-old girl, known in court documents as “J.D.”
“The Court’s restriction, as we understand it, prohibits HHS or the shelter from informing prospective mental health providers of J.D.’s abortion or sharing her medical records concerning that abortion,” said Jonathan White, deputy director for the government’s children’s programs, in the court document.
“This information would normally be shared with such health care providers; reporting recent medical and surgical procedures is a standard intake question for mental health treatment,” he said.
The government also argues the order restricts its ability to find J.D. an adequate sponsor who she could stay with in the U.S., and to ensure the sponsor would be able to properly care for J.D.
Lawyers for the ACLU said the government should not be allowed to share information about the young woman’s abortion without her consent.
Last week, the government also accused the ACLU of being misleading in their efforts to schedule an abortion for the teen.
“After informing Justice Department attorneys that the procedure would occur on October 26th, Jane Doe’s attorneys scheduled the abortion for the early morning hours of October 25th, thereby thwarting Supreme Court review,” Department of Justice spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement Friday.
Some questioned why the Trump administration did not appeal the Oct. 24 court ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but this new development explains why.
“Jane Doe,” the undocumented teenager at the center of the court battle, aborted her 16-week unborn baby on Oct. 25, barely a day after a federal appeals court forced Trump administration officials to help facilitate the abortion.
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In the petition to the Supreme Court, the government said the ACLU violated its duty to the court and the Bar, and disciplinary actions may be warranted.
Many women struggle with mental health problems after having an abortion. Studies indicate that abortions are linked to increased risks of depression, anxiety, suicide or suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, drug abuse and other problems.
A 2011 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, for example, found an 81 percent increased risk of mental health problems among women who had abortions, compared to women who give birth.
A 2009 study by New Zealand researchers at the University of Otago found similar results. They reviewed the medical histories of more than 500 women and concluded that having an abortion generally “leads to significant distress” in some women.
And while abortion facilities rarely, if ever, offer post-abortion counseling, pro-life organizations offer a wide variety of non-judgmental programs to help women through their struggles with their unborn baby’s abortion death.
Abortion is such a sacrament to the Left that the will even kill an anchor baby!
I would love to see a study comparing physical and mental health outcomes between women who abort and women who are “forced” to give birth. My prediction would be that the women who give birth, even to “unwanted” babies, are much better off.
Even though the abortion industry tries to make it look like the woman’s first impulse is to run and get an abortion the second she learns she is pregnant, nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing natural about a desire to abort; it goes against every instinct ingrained in us for millions of years. Thwarting instinct is not a recipe for happiness.
I read a study several years ago about women whose babies had died in utero, and who were given a choice to have the baby removed via an abortion-like procedure, or to wait for natural miscarriage. Some women who opted for miscarriage never did miscarry and had to have the removal procedure anyway. What that study found was that the women who opted to wait for natural miscarriage were emotionally better adjusted after losing their babies than the women who opted to have the fetus removed in a pseudo-abortion. The women choosing miscarriage were better off whether they actually miscarried or the baby ended up having to be removed. What I interpret is going on is that the surgical removal of a baby is so unnatural and contrary to instinct that it leaves women mentally and emotionally scarred—even if they know the baby was already dead before having the procedure.
She needs the support of her family. Send her back home.
And make sure any of her illegal alien family members get sent back on the same bus. Today.
But that would be barbaric! She's an orphan now!
Oh, wait... mom killed child, not the reverse...Hmmm.
She's still an orphan!
Well, her anchor baby is gone so adios to this mamacita.
If our 5th column journalists were covering France in 1943, they would insist on calling the Germans “undocumented immigrants”.
Anyone who manages to walk, crawl or sneak across our border, by their lights, is an immigrant and is also entitled to all the prerequisites of citizens.
When the time comes, let’s hang the journalists first. They have abused the 1st amendment and would deny us our right to try and be happy in our own country.
Kid needs to go home with the judge. They sound like birds of a feather.
Why didn’t Jeff sessions just Deport the little bitch instead of fighting so hard to stop the abortion? Now this Obama appointed judge will make sure she can never be deported
Not just mentally and physically scarred, but spiritually as well. There’s nothing worse than learning that you are capable of killing your own flesh and blood. The remorse is seeking the truth, because obviously the lie isn’t holding up to reality.
The mind wanted to believe the ‘abortion is ok’ rhetoric, but the spirit knows better. Welcome to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Abortion is a horrible way to find out the truth. And you can’t take it back no matter how hard, or how long, or how severely you punish yourself.
Desiring to kill your off spring is abnormal. Regret, horror over what you did, grief..those are the right and normal reactions in a post abortion situation. And yes, pregnancy is often the follow-up response for those empty arms.
Some hateful folks will scoff at this saying she deserves what she gets. But the truth is, all of us hav3 fallen short of perfection and we all deserve death. Yet, merciful God is kind and continues to bless us. We all owe a debt we can’t pay.
Many of these young women end up in a cycle where they get pregnant multiple times (because their instincts kick in) and then abort every time (because they turn around and suppress their instinct). And each time they do so, they feel even worse about themselves.
I read an article about one woman who had had 8 or 9 abortions, and one live child (it was unclear why she had the one alive). She would get pregnant because she finally found the "right" man, and then she would break up with him a few weeks later and have another abortion (and feel more depressed than ever). Clearly, she could not connect with any man. She also could not bond with the one living child she had--she handed him off to her parents to raise because she was not capable of it. While the article was, I think, trying to portray abortion as a wonderful gift for this woman who obviously was in no position to have children, what it really showed was that she was extremely and profoundly damaged. I have to wonder, if without legal and easily obtainable abortion, she would have been more responsible and not driven herself into that cycle where her feeling that she was too worthless to be a mother would drive her to kill another kid, which only deepened her conviction that she was too worthless to be a mother.
Sounds to me like she is milking health-related appeals to stay in the country.
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