cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t purely anti-abortion pearl clutching in this instance. Where this occurred it is perfectly legal to have an abortion into the 20th week of pregnancy.

    Fetuses are viable outside the womb at 24 weeks.

    They killed the fetus with meds at 28 weeks, the pregnant 17 year old still went through labor (with no medical supervision due to how they chose to do this), they burned he remains, and then buried them on a farm.

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      1 year ago

      That’s really isn’t the point. The point is that all Facebook Messages are government property.

      Let’s do this scenario at 2 weeks in a zero abortion policy state.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        That’s a massive oversimplification of things. Intentionally removing nuance doesn’t help people.

        More response in my other reply to your similar message