Following the decision of a federal appeals court, a Mexican teenager in Texas has had an abortion, the Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon.

That abortion was authorized by the U.S. government and paid for by U.S. taxpayers, as the 17-year-old illegal immigrant has been living in a detention center in Brownsville, Texas, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services since she crossed the border from Mexico last month.

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