{"id":20818,"date":"2023-09-24T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=20818"},"modified":"2023-09-24T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:40:11","slug":"nebraska-mother-sentenced-in-abortion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/09\/24\/nebraska-mother-sentenced-in-abortion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska mother sentenced in abortion case"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u201cA Nebraska mother who helped her teenage daughter obtain abortion pills to end her pregnancy [at 29 weeks] and later disposed of the fetus\u2019 remains was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>(Quoted from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anafaguy\/2023\/09\/22\/nebraska-mom-who-gave-teen-daughter-abortion-pills-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison\/\"><cite>Forbes<\/cite> article<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n<p>This situation has apparently been in the news for over a year now, but I hadn\u2019t heard of it until yesterday.<\/p>\r\n<p>There are many many different takes on this situation, and it has a lot of nuances that have been obscured by some headlines. And each article I\u2019ve seen has used different phrasing for what exactly the three charges were that Burgess pleaded guilty to.<\/p>\r\n<p>But there are two specific aspects of the situation that I want to note:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>The prosecutor and some news articles consistently referred to the 29(ish)-week fetus as a \u201cbaby.\u201d If a court or a reader accepts that framing uncritically, then a lot of other ideas flow naturally from it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Meta\/Facebook handed over messages between the mother and the daughter to police. So don\u2019t plan abortions (or anything else that you don\u2019t want police to know about) using Meta\u2019s Messenger. (The same general principle applies to most other unencrypted communication systems, but I don\u2019t know for sure that other companies would hand over users\u2019 data regarding planning an abortion.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}