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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Claire Wang

As Trump targets birthright citizenship, the terrain is once again ‘women’s bodies and sexuality’

a woman and a baby
Olga Urbina with baby Ares Webster at a protest outside the US supreme court in Washington DC on 15 May 2025. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women – led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela – sued over the president’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, out of fear that their unborn children would be left stateless.

The case went before the supreme court, which sided with the Trump administration Friday by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order.

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