"The government shouldn't come between parents and their children!"*
*"Unless the parents are doing something we don't approve of!"
It's almost like it was never about the children to begin with.
It's a common theme:
"We want state's rights!"
"Great, my state wants legal marijuana, gay marriage, safe and legal abortions, and physician assisted suicide."
"No, not like that!"
Disgusting law. Who does this help? No one.
fuck the usa
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
According to prosecutors, after the pair bought pills to end the pregnancy, Celeste Burgess gave birth to a stillborn fetus.
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing or abandoning a dead human body.
Although the case occurred before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it has been seen as a harbinger of how law enforcement may prosecute people for ending their own pregnancies in a post-Roe era – and how giant tech companies could go along with it.
Celeste Burgess was released from Madison county jail earlier this month, after serving a little more than half of her 90-day sentence, local Nebraska news outlet KTIV reported.
Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
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Before you get the pitchforks, this pregnancy was past the 5 month mark. While the majority are in favor of abortion, this is very close to third trimester abortion which isn't so popular without extenuating circumstances.
[The daughter] also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
[The mother] was set to undergo a court-ordered psychological evaluation ahead of her sentencing. But the evaluation was canceled due to lack of funding
Even if she didn’t try and fail to get an abortion before this point (and we don’t know whether she did), I’m pretty sure that most would agree that this is a circumstance where a late second trimester/very early third trimester should be acceptable.
It was also pretty despicable to cancel the mother’s psychological evaluation because of “lack of funding” and to then sentence her to multiple years in prison.
I’ll keep my pitchfork out, thanks.
I didn't initially believe them, but they're absolutely right:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_termination_of_pregnancy