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Trump officials considered contentious method to 'reverse' undocumented teen's abortion
by ArtemusBlank

    Scott Lloyd, the Trump administration’s pick as director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, raised the prospect last March of administering the hormone progesterone to a 17-year-old girl from El Salvador who had entered the US illegally and was being held in custody in San Antonio, Texas. The procedure is unrecognized by the medical profession as a means of reversing abortion and has side-effects attached to it.

    Lloyd’s plan to apply the controversial hormone method, first reported by Vice News, was revealed in court documents disclosed in an ACLU lawsuit that seeks to stop the Trump administration from blocking access to abortions by female immigrants in the ORR’s care. Since Lloyd took over the agency last year, it has been accused by civil rights groups of effectively holding girls hostage in an attempt to negate their constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies.