Supreme Court Denies China Man’s Asylum Request in Forced Abortion Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an asylum request from the husband of a woman who had been the victim of a forced abortion in China. The man hoped to join his wife in the United States to flee persecution from the oppressive family planning policy that allows couples just one child.
The nation’s high court had to weigh in on a conflict between federal appeals courts over whether federal asylum law protects just the women who are forced abortion victims or their partners as well.
Last year, a ruling against asylum for the partner of one victim by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put it at odds with the 9th Circuit, which supported it . . .