Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

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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After a dramatic filibuster effort earlier this year NE changed their abortion law to a ban that starts at 12 weeks.

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-care-abortion-ban-nebraska-1a88067bf403559116df7c09e004e472

Not at the time that this crime was committed so it’s irrelevant to this story, but regardless they still aborted the baby at 7 months in.

Who gives a fuck? Genuinely. It's dead regardless of when it died.

In this instance it would have been viable outside the womb at the time it was killed.