Scott Lloyd came to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with “a history in the anti-abortion movement,” according to the New York Times. “Before he joined the Trump administration, he worked as a policy coordinator for the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic fraternal order, and served on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in Virginia. On the résumé and cover letter he submitted to the department, he listed his work experience as the ‘architect’ of a late-term abortion ban that is now law in six states.” Now as director of ORR, Lloyd is using his position to block pregnant teens in his custody from accessing their right to an abortion:

He has instructed his staff to give him a spreadsheet each week that tells him about any unaccompanied minors who have asked for one and how far along they are in their pregnancy. In at least one case he directed staff to read to one girl a description of what happens during an abortion. And when there’s a need for counseling, Mr. Lloyd’s office calls on someone from its list of preferred “life affirming” pregnancy resource centers.

In the case of one detained minor, “Jane Doe,” Daily Kos’s Kelly Macias wrote last year that Lloyd “acknowledges Jane Doe’s emotional distress as indicated by a doctor. But instead of making sure she is taken care of and has access to the abortion she seeks, he not only tries to force her into spiritual counseling, he also attempts to keep her from seeing her lawyers.” After a month-long legal battle that saw “a state judge, a federal judge, a panel of appeal judges and the full appeals court” all affirm that Jane had a right to access an abortion, she was finally able to get one:

Last fall Mr. Lloyd’s refusal to let a 17-year-old in Texas leave the shelter where she was living to get an abortion drew an admonishment from a federal judge who said she was “ astounded ” the government had been so insistent on keeping someone from obtaining a constitutionally protected procedure. Last week another judge barred him from trying to prevent any girl in his care from getting an abortion, but government lawyers have asked for a stay and plan to appeal.

The ORR is supposed to be an agency that “oversees the assistance program for the tens of thousands of refugees who still seek shelter in the United States”—including unaccompanied minors—and help war-torn, traumatized, but hopeful people seeking a second chance at life settle in America to start brand-new lives. Instead, Lloyd and other anti-choice hires within the Trump administration are seeking to impose their radical agenda within governmental agencies, and stomping on the constitutional rights of detained young women in the process.