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US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills
(www.theguardian.com)
Gonna be a bunch of women in prison for this. That's wild.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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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.
It’s bizarre to me that some women voted for this.
"I'll never need one." Until they do.
And then they assume an exception has or will be there for them because theirs is morally justified because they’re good people, and everyone else is a sinner.
They never even take the time to consider the needs of the women within their own "tribe."  They are simply brainwashed.
This, we like to talk about men making decisions on women's reproductive rights. But if it wasn't wasn't for women this wouldn't have passed.
If I wasn't for men it wouldn't have even been introduced or gained this momentum. If it wasn't for misogyny this wouldn't have passed.
While there is a place for it, my issue with saying misogyny in this context is that it's a vague, loaded and nebulous term that people project their own meanings to and detracts from the nuances of the reasons that lead women to support anti abortion legislation in the first place. I don't think the sociological forces can simply be explained away by saying its misogyny, there are women that sincerely believe abortions are unethical.
It's not the belief that abortions are unethical that is misogynistic. It's the belief that your ethics on abortion give you the right to take away another person's right to make decisions about their body based on THEIR ethics, because they are women.
Don't believe me? Imagine a law that forces every healthy person to donate blood. Why does that sound ridiculous when the risks of blood donation are far less, and the number of lives it could save far higher? Or donating a kidney, which carries similar risk-per-life?
The answer: because it wouldn't only be women affected.
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And those women are also misogynistic.
Why, why, why…
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Just like the war on drugs. We locked up so many people for smoking a joint or having a speck of cocaine on them. As if these are the people who are a danger to society (most of the time).
And Congress critters enjoy all the drugs they want while also playing underage females with them (Gaetz).
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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.
It's been going downhill for a while now. Not just 2016 We just didn't notice.
For me it started in 2001. The 90s were pretty rad.
The 90s were the peak of our society (thus far). We could have been a little less homophobic, but besides that, things were pretty great.
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It started with Nixon but Reagan had the eighties. Rad in a bad way.
"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.
People should crowdfund an escape plan for that lady and deliver justice by keeping her free. Fuck the law if it's wrong.
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
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?
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