US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains
Gonna be a bunch of women in prison for this. That's wild.
It is absolutely bizarre to me, that we as a society will be taking away the freedom of select women and locking them away with actual criminals simply because they chose to act on their right to bodily autonomy.
The girl was 7 months pregnant at the time of abortion and they burned the body. This isn't normal at all.
Which wouldn't have been necessary at all if Republicans weren't all up in her vagina in the first place.
Cremation isn’t unusual.
It will be.
Damn and Facebook ratted them out
That’s honestly one of the least surprising parts
Maybe all the "I have nothing to hide" folks will get why people were harping on privacy all these years.
It seemed like society was slowly but surely moving forward overall then 2016 happened and everything went to shit. Just like everyone paying even a tiny amount of attention knew it would. Fuck this is sad.
"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. At her sentencing, Celeste Burgess said that her family could not have afforded a funeral for fetal remains, according to Courthouse News. (In a financial affidavit obtained by Vice, Jessica Burgess said she had $400 to her name.) Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
Jessica Burgess was set to undergo a court-ordered psychological evaluation ahead of her sentencing. But the evaluation was canceled due to lack of funding, according to KTIV."
"Lack of Funding" is something I read far too often for this economy.
Wealth hoarding is going to cast the rest of us into abject poverty, and we can't really do anything about it. We live in a dystopian political drama, and it fucking BLOWS
They can skip psychological evaluations ordered by a court to ensure justice is done because the state doesn't have enough money, but if you're a poor woman who can't afford a funeral for something that was never a person, get fucked and go to prison.
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another.
She's in prison because Meta read their messages.
this isn't acceptable
one more reason to get off of any social media and especially meta
People should crowdfund an escape plan for that lady and deliver justice by keeping her free. Fuck the law if it's wrong.
Welcome to Nebraska home of the evangelical grand inquisitor
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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This is horrible. Any chance of this travesty getting appealed?
Facebook "private" DMs. It's not just a theory, Orwell is here.
Well after 20 weeks. Well after five months. Is it still a “clump of cells” at 20 weeks?
These two women would likely be in prison anywhere in Europe which tends to have shorter term limits on abortion.
Also lol at ending the article by decrying the fact Nebraska now imposes a 12 week ban. The same as that famous anti-woman regressive Gilead-esque shithole Germany.
If it is inside of a woman's body and reliant on her to be alive, then it has nothing to do with anyone else. It's a parasite she can decide to excise from her body.
You can't force someone to give blood or an organ to another person, why are you allowed to force a woman to keep something inside her body?
Clump of cells or not, it's still the mother's choice whether to keep hosting it.
These two women would have been able to access abortion services much earlier in the pregnancy, if they were in Europe instead of Oklahoma. This case is the kind of thing that restricting access to legal abortion early in pregnancies causes. This is the fault of the Oklahoma abortion bans
It literally doesn't matter, women have the right to end a pregnancy no matter what part of the process they're at.
Women do not owe you babies. Women's rights are more important than fetuses' rights.
Fuck the fetus.
It is way more than a clump of cells at 20 weeks. 20 weeks is when you do the huge ultrasound to make sure everything is developing how it should. My wife and I did a 20 week ultrasound for our first kid back in July and it looks just like a baby; you can see fingers, toes, facial structure, etc. The baby is kicking and rolling around through the whole thing.
It’s funny you get downvoted because you are right. Anyone who has a kid or knows how babies develop would never want abortions allowed at 20 weeks except in certain circumstances. Europe has a 12 week ban for a reason. Europe is only progressive here when it fits their narrative.
This shiti article gets reposted to rile up people but people actually read it and see the facts, they realize that click bait title is hardly supported by the facts.
Didn't they also dispose of the remains in some unsavory way?
The abortion debate in the US is psychotic. On one end you have prolifers that want to ban Plan B and some would definitely like to ban contraceptives too.
On the other end you have rabid prochoicers who support the idea that abortion should be an elective procedure with (almost) no limits.
Whereas, in most of Europe, we seem to have figured it out. Set a sensible limit somewhere around 12-14 weeks, allow a lot exceptions when the mother's health in threatened or for cases of rape and incest, and that's it. It works.
But, something else is at play here, which is that many extreme feminists don't want any kind of equality but power. The demand to be able to terminate a pregnancy with no limits is a demand to be solely in control of human reproduction.