Gonna be a bunch of women in prison for this. That’s wild.
It is absolutely bizarre to me, that we as a society will be taking away the freedom of select women and locking them away with actual criminals simply because they chose to act on their right to bodily autonomy.
It’s bizarre to me that some women voted for this.
“I’ll never need one.” Until they do.
And then they assume an exception has or will be there for them because theirs is morally justified because they’re good people, and everyone else is a sinner.
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This, we like to talk about men making decisions on women’s reproductive rights. But if it wasn’t wasn’t for women this wouldn’t have passed.
If I wasn’t for men it wouldn’t have even been introduced or gained this momentum. If it wasn’t for misogyny this wouldn’t have passed.
While there is a place for it, my issue with saying misogyny in this context is that it’s a vague, loaded and nebulous term that people project their own meanings to and detracts from the nuances of the reasons that lead women to support anti abortion legislation in the first place. I don’t think the sociological forces can simply be explained away by saying its misogyny, there are women that sincerely believe abortions are unethical.
It’s not the belief that abortions are unethical that is misogynistic. It’s the belief that your ethics on abortion give you the right to take away another person’s right to make decisions about their body based on THEIR ethics, because they are women.
Don’t believe me? Imagine a law that forces every healthy person to donate blood. Why does that sound ridiculous when the risks of blood donation are far less, and the number of lives it could save far higher? Or donating a kidney, which carries similar risk-per-life?
The answer: because it wouldn’t only be women affected.
You can weave together theory all day, the fact is that the average voters won’t even care to understand. Much less if you go up to women who support anti abortion legislation and start calling them misogynist, they look at the world through a completely different lense, and they will not take anything you have to say seriously.
And those women are also misogynistic.
Why, why, why…
These women should not be allowed to do anything but pop out kids, fuck, make food and watch their damn mouth.
I do not suffer a woman to speak - some Bible verse.
We really should be cyber bullying these bitches nonstop just saying.
Your parents failed you, and they failed us too. Get therapy.
Just like the war on drugs. We locked up so many people for smoking a joint or having a speck of cocaine on them. As if these are the people who are a danger to society (most of the time).
And Congress critters enjoy all the drugs they want while also playing underage females with them (Gaetz).
Autonomy is always at the discretion of rich old white men.
That’s not 100% accurate. Some of them aren’t rich, several of them aren’t old, and a few of them aren’t white.
The girl was 7 months pregnant at the time of abortion and they burned the body. This isn’t normal at all.
Which wouldn’t have been necessary at all if Republicans weren’t all up in her vagina in the first place.
Cremation isn’t unusual.
It will be.
Damn and Facebook ratted them out
That’s honestly one of the least surprising parts
Maybe all the “I have nothing to hide” folks will get why people were harping on privacy all these years.
It seemed like society was slowly but surely moving forward overall then 2016 happened and everything went to shit. Just like everyone paying even a tiny amount of attention knew it would. Fuck this is sad.
It’s been going downhill for a while now. Not just 2016 We just didn’t notice.
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The 90s were the peak of our society (thus far). We could have been a little less homophobic, but besides that, things were pretty great.
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It started with Nixon but Reagan had the eighties. Rad in a bad way.
"Celeste Burgess was released from Madison county jail earlier this month, after serving a little more than half of her 90-day sentence, local Nebraska news outlet KTIV reported. At her sentencing, Celeste Burgess said that her family could not have afforded a funeral for fetal remains, according to Courthouse News. (In a financial affidavit obtained by Vice, Jessica Burgess said she had $400 to her name.) Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
Jessica Burgess was set to undergo a court-ordered psychological evaluation ahead of her sentencing. But the evaluation was canceled due to lack of funding, according to KTIV."
“Lack of Funding” is something I read far too often for this economy.
Wealth hoarding is going to cast the rest of us into abject poverty, and we can’t really do anything about it. We live in a dystopian political drama, and it fucking BLOWS
They can skip psychological evaluations ordered by a court to ensure justice is done because the state doesn’t have enough money, but if you’re a poor woman who can’t afford a funeral for something that was never a person, get fucked and go to prison.
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this isn’t acceptable
one more reason to get off of any social media and especially meta
People should crowdfund an escape plan for that lady and deliver justice by keeping her free. Fuck the law if it’s wrong.
Welcome to Nebraska home of the evangelical grand inquisitor
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
According to prosecutors, after the pair bought pills to end the pregnancy, Celeste Burgess gave birth to a stillborn fetus.
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing or abandoning a dead human body.
Although the case occurred before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it has been seen as a harbinger of how law enforcement may prosecute people for ending their own pregnancies in a post-Roe era – and how giant tech companies could go along with it.
Celeste Burgess was released from Madison county jail earlier this month, after serving a little more than half of her 90-day sentence, local Nebraska news outlet KTIV reported.
Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
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Well after 20 weeks. Well after five months. Is it still a “clump of cells” at 20 weeks?
These two women would likely be in prison anywhere in Europe which tends to have shorter term limits on abortion.
Also lol at ending the article by decrying the fact Nebraska now imposes a 12 week ban. The same as that famous anti-woman regressive Gilead-esque shithole Germany.
If it is inside of a woman’s body and reliant on her to be alive, then it has nothing to do with anyone else. It’s a parasite she can decide to excise from her body.
You can’t force someone to give blood or an organ to another person, why are you allowed to force a woman to keep something inside her body?
Clump of cells or not, it’s still the mother’s choice whether to keep hosting it.
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Oh fuck you, stop lying. The vast majority of Americans agree on reasonable abortion restrictions.
“When asked about the legality of abortion at different stages of pregnancy, about two-thirds of Americans say it should be legal in the first trimester (69%), while support drops to 37% for the second trimester and 22% for the third. Majorities oppose abortion being legal in the second (55%) and third (70%) trimesters.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx
No but but but both sides are equally bad, and what about them eXtReMe FeMiNiStS??!!??!!¿¿
Whereas, in most of Europe, we seem to have figured it out. Set a sensible limit somewhere around 12-14 weeks, allow a lot exceptions when the mother’s health in threatened or for cases of rape and incest, and that’s it. It works.
Like hell it does. Women in Europe do not have bodily autonomy. You don’t need a special justification to decide what happens to your own body.
I didn’t even know I was pregnant until 12 weeks or more.
Chomping at the bit for a both sides false equivalency? Interesting that you’d find it when the basic rights of a whole class of people are on the line.
It is way more than a clump of cells at 20 weeks. 20 weeks is when you do the huge ultrasound to make sure everything is developing how it should. My wife and I did a 20 week ultrasound for our first kid back in July and it looks just like a baby; you can see fingers, toes, facial structure, etc. The baby is kicking and rolling around through the whole thing.
It’s funny you get downvoted because you are right. Anyone who has a kid or knows how babies develop would never want abortions allowed at 20 weeks except in certain circumstances. Europe has a 12 week ban for a reason. Europe is only progressive here when it fits their narrative.
These two women would have been able to access abortion services much earlier in the pregnancy, if they were in Europe instead of Oklahoma. This case is the kind of thing that restricting access to legal abortion early in pregnancies causes. This is the fault of the Oklahoma abortion bans
Fuck the fetus.
This is horrible. Any chance of this travesty getting appealed?
My mind read “monster” instead of “mother”. So I was surprised to find that the monster in this story is the mother, not.
The monster is restriction on reproductive freedom
The monsters are:
- the police
- the judge
- the legal system making this possible
I’m sure Melon Husk can find a way to get in on this.
How many kids? How many baby mamas?
If I get a PM on Twitter with more serious stuff, I immediately send Discord ans Signal links instead. I don’t want to risk any Elongated Muskrat moments…
Go check privacy on discord lol
Facebook “private” DMs. It’s not just a theory, Orwell is here.
