Government Shelter: Liberties Union and Court Filings

government shelter: Lloyd's efforts to dissuade teens in his office's care from having abortion were disclosed in previous court filings by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to CTV. Those filings included emails in which he offers to connect a pregnant teen with a few good families who would see her through her pregnancy. Scott Lloyd heads the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which faces an ongoing lawsuit over its refusal to allow teens in its care to have abortions. But he appears to go a step further in a memo included in a filing Thursday by the government, saying that his office has no obligation under the law or the U.S. Constitution to allow abortions for anyone in a government shelter. The memo, dated Sunday, explains why Lloyd refused a teenager's request even though agency staff had reason to believe the minor was impregnated in a rape. ORR cares for thousands of minors at a time, most of them unaccompanied children and teenagers from Central America who have entered the United States without legal permission. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.