Pregnant Immigrant Teens in Detention Face Potentially Unsafe Conditions in Texas Shelter

Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.

New York City

Officials reinstalled the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument after a Trump administration directive forced its removal this week. A White House memo had stated that the National Park Service can only fly approved flags at its sites. In response, the city council passed a resolution that urged Congress to respect the history of Stonewall. Hours later, officials returned the Pride flag to the mast. “The flag is up,” Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the Manhattan borough president, said. “The community should rejoice.”

San Benito, Texas

More than a dozen pregnant, unaccompanied minors have been sent to a south Texas immigration shelter that is not equipped to take care of them, according to new reporting from Houston Public Media. Advocates fear the teens were put there because of the state’s near-total abortion ban. “Putting pregnant kids in San Benito is not a decision you make when you care about children’s safety,” one official told the publication. At least half of the pregnancies reportedly resulted from rape. Some of the pregnant children are only 13.

Sacramento

Planned Parenthood will get a cash infusion after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill this week allocating $90 million in emergency funds to it and other reproductive health-care providers. Planned Parenthood lost nearly all federal funding last July after being barred from receiving Medicaid payments; 23 of its clinics have since closed. It dropped a suit over the lost funding last week. Newsom said it was “a point of pride” for him to “address these assaults and attacks on women.” 

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