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This story leaves out some details: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/nebraska-mom-and-daughter-charged-for-burning-burying-aborted-fetus/ https://nypost.com/2022/0
by kodah 4y ago
This story leaves out some details: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/nebraska-mom-and-daughter-charged-for-burning-burying-aborted-fetus/ https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/nebraska-mom-and-daughter-char...
> When an investigator interviewed the teen, she allegedly confirmed that she had a miscarriage after midnight on April 22, and said that she and her mother placed the fetus in a bag in the back of their van, according to the court papers.
> Jessica and Celeste also said that Barnhill, whose relationship to the two women has not been revealed, later helped them bury the fetus on his property.
> Police were led to the makeshift gravesite and unearthed the corpse, which was found to show signs of “thermal injuries,” the documents stated.
> Barnhill reportedly confirmed to the investigators that the mother and daughter had attempted to burn the fetus before putting it in the ground.
My opinion might be a bit contrarian, but I was always taught that Roe v Wade was because abortions had become so unsafe without a proper place to do them. I imagine in this case we're missing some details, because the actual abortion involved sourcing some pills that are specifically used for abortion. I don't imagine sourcing those was quick. My read on this set of circumstances is that if you put arbitrary blockers on something that someone really wants to do, it course corrects them into a very unhealthy path. In this case, the details are shocking, but not incongruent with what I have been told was the reasoning for Roe v Wade and true to other harm reduction logic.
It's awful easy to argue post-facto that she could just have given birth, but I think that ignores a lot of changes and sacrifices a woman at 17-18 years old will have to endure.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI think it's important to keep in mind the date. On April 22, Roe was still settled law from decades ago. The leak hadn't even happened yet.
- kodah 4y agoI mean that's a point, but I'm not sure especially relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Nebraska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Nebraska also, the requirements for an abortion: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-nebraska https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abor... There's three clinics total in the entire state and quite a number of hurdles. Including one that a patient must wait 24 hours after a consultation to have the procedure performed. If a patient has to travel to the clinic, and odds are she did, that's at minimum two days but maximally four. Then there's the cost, 2-3 nights at a hotel, plus abortions can't be paid by insurance - they're now looking at several hundred dollars of out of pocket cost in a state like Nebraska. If this young woman waited to tell her mother until she was showing (or didn't know until she was showing - which at 23 weeks, and a few weeks prior, she would be) then I can see this putting them in a weird place. My point here isn't to reason about the things that happened after the abortion, but rather to say I think the more arbitrary hurdles that are introduced the more zany the outcomes will be.