This guy runs the Office of Refugee Resettlement

Last spring, a judge ruled that incompetent scumbag Scott Lloyd and his shit show Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) could no longer prevent underage refugees from legally seeking abortions. However, new documents suggest after the ruling, he continued to track pregnancies in order to do just that.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow revealed documents unearthed by American Bridge, a liberal super PAC, that seem to indicate Lloyd and the ORR were tracking the periods and pregnancies of refugees ages 12-17 as recently as June 2018. The 28-page document was in spreadsheet format, with columns recording deeply personal information such as whether the pregnancy was a result of consensual sex, “gestational age,” and last menstrual cycle (it’s spelled “mentsral” in the spreadsheet).

In 2018, 18 unaccompanied minors sued the Office of Refugee Resettlement (headed by Lloyd) after being denied abortions. Lloyd argued that they had no legal right to end unwanted pregnancies, some of which were the products of rape. A federal judge disagreed, ordering the government to stop blocking the minors’ access to abortion.

Maddow points out that the fact Lloyd continued to track the pregnancies of the minors suggests the ORR may have continued its practice of detaining pregnant minors until it was too late to have a legal abortion, even after the judge ordered them to stop. The latest entries are dated June 2018; the judge issued the order March 30, 2018.

  Jezebel

August 22, 2018

Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, has worked zealously to prevent several undocumented teens in his care from getting abortions, going so far as to (unsuccessfully) attempt to compel a 17-year-old girl in detention to “reverse” her procedure after she’d taken the first of two pills required for a medical abortion. He is so concerned with the issue of abortion, according to reports, that he demands weekly spreadsheets containing information about every pregnant, unaccompanied girl in ORR custody who has asked for a termination.

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Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, ORR routinely permitted abortions sought by undocumented teens who obtained private funding for the procedure. But after President Donald Trump appointed Lloyd to lead the agency last spring, he quickly changed this long-standing policy, requiring any teenager in ORR’s custody seeking to terminate a pregnancy to get his direct approval.

  The Cut

But wait. There's more.

Scott Lloyd’s anti-abortion crusade began when, as a young man, he found himself faced with a partner’s unexpected pregnancy. [...] When asked about his plans for the day, he said he was going fishing; instead, he drove the young woman he had gotten pregnant to get the abortion he disagreed with.

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Lloyd recalled his shock and fear at learning the woman was pregnant. He described spending a sleepless week praying, seeking advice from friends, and reading the Bible. He wanted to put the baby up for adoption, and he and the woman argued when she told him she had already arranged for an abortion. The next day, Lloyd drove to pick up the woman for her appointment, still hoping to convince her otherwise. She had asked him to pay for half the procedure:

On the way there, I gave her the money, mostly in ones, for two reasons: 1) if I didn’t, I would be the enemy and she would stop listening to me and 2) because if she went through with it, I didn’t want to leave thinking it wasn’t my fault. Both were stupid reasons. In the parking lot we argued one last time.

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“The truth about abortion,” he wrote [in a law school essay], “is that my first child is dead, and no woman, man, Supreme Court, or government—NOBODY—has the right to tell me that she doesn’t belong here.”

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Lloyd argued that women who aren’t willing or able to give birth should abstain from sex: “If a woman needs to defend so fiercely the ‘one thing they can call their own—their body,’ then they shouldn’t be so careless with it as to have sex when they are not ready to be pregnant.”

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Lloyd had written that while he knew some found comparisons to the Holocaust “distasteful,” for him, the “similarities have been crystal clear” since the day he and the woman argued about the abortion. He continued:

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The Jews who died in the Holocaust had a chance to laugh, play, sing, dance, learn, and love each other. The victims of abortion do not, simply because people have decided this is the way it should be, not through any proper discernment of their humanity. Neither type of murder is more or less tragic, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that they are not both tragedies, and they are not both murder.

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Lloyd wrote that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and that “I don’t support abortion for any reason” including “cases of rape, incest, and danger to women.” He went on to write that women give up their rights to privacy and “bodily integrity” when they decide to have sex, and to argue that men should have more say in stopping abortions.

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Lloyd has instructed ORR shelters to send pregnant young women to religiously affiliated crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion and to undergo medically unnecessary ultrasounds.

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In [one] case, he denied a pregnant rape survivor who had threatened to hurt herself if forced to deliver, stymieing her quest for an abortion until a federal judge intervened.

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In October 2017, the ACLU sued Lloyd on behalf of a young woman in ORR custody in Texas who had been prevented from having an abortion, later adding other plaintiffs as they came forward. This summer [2018], a federal trial court in Washington, DC, allowed a number of girls to sue Lloyd together and indefinitely blocked him from personally controlling the abortion decisions of young women in his care. The government has appealed both rulings; argument in the case is set for September. A second ACLU lawsuit is challenging ORR’s placement of minors in religious shelters that refuse to facilitate abortions.

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Lloyd has claimed in depositions taken by the ACLU that he does not allow his religious beliefs to influence his decisions denying minors’ abortions as director of ORR, repeatedly saying he considers “the totality of circumstances.”

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In his law school essay, Lloyd grounds his opposition to abortion in Christianity, describing abortion as a sin in the context of his Catholic faith. “What of Christ’s body did he hold back? He had a choice not to die for our sins,” Lloyd wrote. “The martyrs that built our church sacrificed their bodies to the most violent, tortuous treatment. All our Church requires is that a woman has the child growing inside of her, and you’re willing to turn your back on the Church for that?”

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His work since law school has reflected a continued commitment to the anti-abortion cause. Lloyd worked in the Bush-era Health and Human Services Department, where he helped draft “conscience” regulations allowing medical providers to opt out of care they objected to on religious grounds, including abortions. He then co-founded a pro-life law firm in Virginia and served on the board of a crisis pregnancy center before working for the Catholic Knights of Columbus and, according to his resume, helping to craft a 20-week abortion ban that’s become law in six states and been proposed in the House and Senate. He’s said as recently as this year, in depositions in the ongoing case about his ORR abortion policy, that he doesn’t believe immigrant minors have a constitutional right to abortion.

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While the writings show Lloyd’s thinking almost 15 years ago, before he’d obtained a full legal education or work experience as an attorney, in a February 2018 deposition, he said he still believes abortion to be a “sin.”

  Mother Jones

Then don't have one, asshat.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.