• clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This headline is a bit misleading. She didn’t just help her daughter have an abortion, she helped her have a late-term abortion, and then burnt & buried the remains.

    “According to prosecutors, after the pair bought pills to end the pregnancy, Celeste Burgess gave birth to a stillborn fetus. At the time, Nebraska law banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy was well past that point, according to court records.

    Police say that the Burgesses buried the fetal remains. An examination of the remains suggested they may have also been burned, according to court documents.”

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      1 year ago

      What a horrifying hellscape Nebraska must be for a mother and daughter to feel the need to go to such lengths for healthcare.

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      This is what happens when states destroy access to reproductive healthcare. Desperate people do stupid things.

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      I really wish people would stop using the phrase “late term abortion”. It’s not a medical term. It’s a political one designed demonize those who almost solely terminate for medical reasons.

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        How would you describe this then? She had an abortion well past the pre-roe cutoff of 20 weeks, which is where it starts to become possible for a fetus to survive outside the womb with substantial medical help. No where has it been mentioned that there may have been a medical reason for the abortion.

        To be clear, I’m pro-choice. However, there does come a point in a pregnancy where it becomes morally wrong to terminate if there is no danger to either the mother or the fetus, or the fetus is unviable. Neither of those situations were present here, and she was “well past 20 weeks”, though it’s not listed just how far past she was. So what would you suggest would be the proper terminology here?

        Edit: according to CNN, she was around 28 weeks, or 7 months pregnant.