It’s a scenario that abortion-rights advocates have long feared, in which social-media activity or other personal data are used to prosecute those seeking care and the people who help them
Photo: Jamie Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF A mother and daughter from Norfolk, Nebraska, are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged self-managed abortion that took place earlier this year. : Police reportedly obtained Facebook messages where the two discussed ending the teenager’s pregnancy with abortion pills.
Court records show the Burgesses were each charged on June 1 with a felony count of removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body, as well as two misdemeanor counts of concealing the death of another person and false reporting. But a week later, the detective served a search warrant on Facebook and obtained their chat history. He found messages suggesting that Jessica had obtained abortion pills for Celeste and instructed her on how to take them. “C.
While abortion is highly restricted in Nebraska, and termination after 20 weeks postfertilization is illegal unless the pregnant person’s life is at risk, self-managed abortion is not explicitly banned. Medication abortion is recommended only up to ten weeks of pregnancy in the U.S., but research has shown that with the right dosage of a mifepristone-misoprostol combination, or misoprostol alone, it can be used to end pregnancies well into the second trimester.
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