90 days in jail for having an abortion

Unbelievable that is happening in a supposedly civilized country.

 

Just replace the word USA with Afghanistan, and the word GOP with Taliban. And it'll make sense.

 

If this was a first trimester abortion, I could understand the angst with the sentence. But it was a THIRD trimester abortion. THAT is what’s uncivilized.
* if health/life of baby and/or mother were in jeopardy, then my view would change … if pregnancy was normal, at 28 weeks, I just don’t understand how anyone could do that.

 

This is a tough case to highlight. The teen took pills approved for 10 week abortions at 30 weeks, delivered stillborn (supposedly), buried, dug up, and moved the remains 3 times including attempting to burn it. Even under Roe v Wade would that have been legal?

 

My earlier comments in the thread were without knowing the details of the case. You two are correct. I'll leave my comment up as a testament to my ignorance.

 

Got off light, should burn her on the stake.

 

Apparently (per link below) she was NOT sentenced for an abortion, and this all actually happened BEFORE either Roe was overturned or Nebraska passed their law. Sounds like ultimately she pled and was sentenced for the way she disposed of the remains, not for the abortion itself.

Aside from the fact her actions were extreme, this isn’t really a great example as this all happened before any of the restrictive laws went into effect. She could have had a fully legal early term abortion but didn’t. Instead she committed things that would be criminal in most places. Sounds like a mixture of irresponsibility and desperation/mental illness. BUT while this case is a very poor example due to the timing of the crime, it illustrates the type of thing that will become more common as a result of such invasive laws which will only put more women in desperate situations (6 week ban, 12 week ban, anti-sex ed, anti-contraceptives, etc).

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/nebraska-teen-abortion-jail#:~:text=A Nebraska judge sentenced a,her mother, per multiple reports.

 

We are a shithole country. Happened in the blink of an eye. But all great countries perish. This time it’s because our populace is rotten. They may be a minority but our political structure and judicial structure give them out sized influence (normally they’d all be in reeducation camps). I blame the FF’s and the internet which gave malignant morons a voice.

 

Even if you're pro choice (as I am) you have to agree there's a line somewhere. 30 weeks is definitely pushing it too far. I didn't see any indication in the article that she was denied care early on leading to her actions which would change my thinking if that were the case. Absent that, 90 days isn't entirely unreasonable, but I hate to see that in the case of someone who was 17 at the time.

 

Extremely misleading (if not downright defamation/libel) clickbait thread title, much like mainstream media.

- First trimester abortion pills at 30+ weeks.
- Buried and dug up remains.
- Attempted to conceal/destroy evidence.

And this is just what's reported, and what we know.

Sounds like someone killed their baby post-birth and not only tried to hide the evidence, but lied to the authorities about it.

Regardless if the abortion was legal or not, the cover-up is 100,000,000,000,000 times worse ala Jayson Williams and his cab driver incident. Martha Stewart didn't go to prison for Insider Trading, she went to prison for lying to the investigators about it.

And this is coming from a Barack Obama and Gary Johnson voter btw.

 

Hard to take you seriously when you say this.

 

And then there's this. Why politicize it?

 

The pregnancy was terminated in April 2022 according to the imbedded NYT article, this case has nothing to do with the overturning of Roe which didn’t occur until two months later, or the leaked draft report opinion, which was in May. This was a crime before all of that.

“Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to violating Nebraska’s abortion law, furnishing false information to a law enforcement officer and removing or concealing human skeletal remains. She faces up to five years in prison at her sentencing on Sept. 22, according to Joseph Smith, the top prosecutor in Madison County, Neb.”

 

Reason I say MSM is because they frequently have a habit of not only using clickbait article headlines, but also inaccurate reporting. When I say "inaccurate reporting," I mean specific circumstances where they paraphrase a subject to its bare minimums, while leaving out many important aspects. When discussing newly passed laws, they almost always use brief summaries; what we should be doing is reading the STATUTES, verbatim.

 

Looks like she might’ve gotten off light. From what I can tell desecration of a corpse is a Class IV felony, which carries a possible punishment of up to two years in prison and 12 month post-release supervision and/or up to a $10,000 fine.

 

Yeah. This is a stretch.
This wasnt some 16 year old scared kid crossing a state line to get a morning after pill. This was illegal in most places 5 years ago.