Australian woman deported from US says border agency told her questions about abortion were policy

Brisbane woman Madolline Gourley says she was asked whether she’d had an abortion while detained at Los Angeles airport in June. Photograph: supplied by Madolline Gourley

An Australian woman says the US border agency told her that asking travellers about terminating a pregnancy is in line with their policies after she was detained at an airport and then deported.

Madolline Gourley says she was asked whether she’d had an abortion while detained at Los Angeles airport in June. It came days after Roe v Wade – the landmark court case that legalised abortion – was overturned in the United States.