cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

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.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      In short: Fetuses are viable outside the womb by that point, and no US state has ever allowed abortions that late into pregnancy.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well at some point the fetus becomes a human and abortion becomes murder. There is a lot of debate where that line is.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        Actually there is no debate. It’s called a fetus until it is born. It doesn’t suddenly turn into a person with superior rights because some other person suddenly decides that now the woman lost the rights to her own body.