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.

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    1 year ago

    I agree that these people did a crime.

    I just don’t think their crime should be illegal.

    If this was about murdering a full-grown adult and not aborting a fetus, nobody would be talking about privacy concerns. Guaranteed.

    • @brainrein@feddit.de
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      281 year ago

      How do you know they committed a crime. After reading the article I don’t know. It looks totally as if it’s possible that she just had a miscarriage.

      Maybe there’s just a prosecutor eager for convictions.

      Maybe she was trying do avoid exactly this kind of trouble.

    • Milk
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      31 year ago

      We’d still be talking about the privacy part because it’d be still more concerning than the death of one random dude.

    • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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      -11 year ago

      Would you be ok with someone aborting a 39 week old fetus? What about a 40 week old fetus? What about during labour?

    • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      -61 year ago

      For what it’s worth, the fetus was viable outside the womb 4 weeks before they did this. Viable at 24 weeks, aborted at 28. Pretty fucked up imo

    • Milk
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      -81 year ago

      Also, there’s no general agreement or scientific pointing of where life and consciousness is started on a fetus so, if the government job is to conserve the life of a individual, a fetus life still matters and shouldn’t be taken by neither the parents or anyone else.

      Brazil (ironically enough) has a good constitution about about abortion where’s it is strictly prohibited unless some cases apply like: the baby has developed no brain, the baby has originated from a sexual assault case or the process of giving birth or the pregnancy itself represents a risk of death for the mother. It is simple, states that life’s have the same values as well as showing the individual rights matter.

      • @MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works
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        101 year ago

        Why do you think a life created by sexual assault is less valuable than a life created otherwise? Isn’t the resulting life the same?

        Thinking this through might help you understand the tradeoffs behind most abortions. Pregnancy is dangerous, childbirth is dangerous, parenting is incredibly difficult.

        A child could push a family into poverty and devastate siblings’ futures. How do you evaluate the harm caused by that against the harm caused by being forced to carry a child produced by sexual assault?

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          1 year ago

          A child could push a family into poverty and devastate siblings’ futures.

          A child can also be put up for adoption btw.

        • Milk
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          -61 year ago

          It is not less valuable but the way it was created was against the individual rights of the mother.

          I agree abortion laws are about trade-offs as I showed in my example and that’s why abortion shouldn’t be legal in the cases I stated. Abortion shouldn’t be legal for anyone cause, if it was in a consensual relationship, the mother assumed the risk of pregnancy.

          The only lives that are less valuable are those which deliberately risk or take way the others’ lives.

          Also, thanks for being respectful.

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            The only lives that are less valuable are those which deliberately risk or take way the others’ lives.

            By choosing to be alive, you’re impacting all present and future generations, causing the deaths of potentially billions of humans and countless other animals. Do you see how your attempted distinction doesn’t actually exist?

      • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        You’re joking, right? First, abortions aren’t mentioned in the Brazilian constitution - you’d have to look at specific legal codices, such as the Civil Code or the Penal Code. Second, that’s the bare minimum, not “pretty good”.

        • Milk
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          -51 year ago

          The objective is supposed to be to find the situations where abortion would be fair a fair trade-off of lives and rights, not to try to speedrun the abortion rank; it makes no sense you’re saying it is bare minimum when the objective is to reduce it as it is inherently bad.