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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by xuxebiko@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America

The article is from Aug 10, 2022 but remains relevant

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[–] Ginkko117@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (50 children)

Honestly, it does not look like Facebook did something wrong when you read the article. A pregnant woman used a medicine to trigger a miscarriage, then she and her mother got rid of the body. Police knew that they've discussed this in Facebook messenger. They contacted Facebook and received chat messages. Then police used those messages to incriminate women according to existing law. The only problem here is that a woman could go to an abortion clinic and do it properly and legally if not for obnoxious laws in some states. But that's a completely different issue

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)

It is not a different issue. It is an issue of basic human rights.

A woman's right to agency over her body is an unalienable human right. The existing laws violate her human right.

Then police used those messages to incriminate women according to existing law.

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws. " - Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (23 children)

It is not a different issue. It is an issue of basic human rights.

I don’t believe it’s a basic human right to murder a late term foetus. That’s not a right enshrined in any UN convention or national constitution. That’s something you want.

[–] reclipse 2 points 2 years ago

The chat that FB handed over:

"Ya the 1 pill stops the hormones an rhen u gotta wait 24 HR 2 take the other," read one of her messages.

Celeste Burgess writes, "Remember we burn the evidence," and later, "I will finally be able to wear jeans."

They faced charges of concealing a death and disposing of human remains illegally.

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