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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.

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[-] 0110101001100010@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

Not that facebook doesn't suck and we definitely shouldn't federate with Threads. But here's another article on this. Very late abortion where the fetus was probably viable. 17 year old was like, "I can't wait to get this thing out of me. I can finally where jeans." swallowed some pills to abort. Burned and buried the body on a farm. and the mom and daughter told the police about the facebook messages.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116716749/a-nebraska-woman-is-charged-with-helping-her-daughter-have-an-abortion

[-] cousinofjah@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

So not the best case to argue all the things, but I suppos yet another reminder not to trust big tech with our sensitive information.

[-] SaltySalamander@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. I'm pro-abortion rights, but this was just murder.

[-] matjoeman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That article doesn't really change anything.

[-] ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

In regards to Facebook, and why you should never trust it, no. But given the headline, which is intentionally vague and seems constructed to imply this was related to the Supreme Court's reprehensible ruling on Roe, it adds much needed context, such as the fact that this would have been illegal even before Roe was overturned, and the heinous and sociopathic comments she made. As a rule, I support a childbearing person's bodily autonomy, but in this case? When the fetus was almost certainly viable and her reasoning for the abortion was because she wanted to wear jeans again? Fuck that.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So in this case, because you don't like the person, you deem to have to go through pregnancy and childbirth a rightful punishment or what exactly is your reasoning?

[-] ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

In this case, when she had ample time to abort the pregnancy before it became viable, and didn't choose to do so until in inconvenienced her fashion, my reasoning is that the baby (and yes, this was a baby) did not deserve to die for vanity's sake. She should've given birth and put the baby up for adoption if she didn't want it. There's a reason third trimester pregnancies were illegal even before Roe was overturned. In the third trimester you're no longer dealing with an amorphous clump of cells, which anti-women fanatics ridiculously argue should overrule a woman's bodily autonomy. You're dealing with a person.

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