Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
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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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I read the article at a glance, to be fair. Iirc the pair live in one of the many states where abortion itself is now criminalised, so there was no way to deal with this “without a fuss”.
The godawful changes with Roe v Wade happened after this incident, and you can't be charged with breaking a law by actions taken before the law was in effect/changed. So at the time, they still could have done the abortion legally.
Huh, weird fuckin situation then.