Please read the excerpts below before clicking the link... I've removed the dates as I wonder if it changes anyone's initial gut reaction. Once you've read and have that gut reaction, feel free to read the dates and see if it changes your position at all.... I don't expect it to cause any major changes, but I'm hoping it at least gets us to a conversation about WHEN 'point x' should be, and whether or not it is really just an issue between a woman and her doctor.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas...362339.php

Facebook gave Nebraska teen's DMs to police for abortion prosecution

The case is one of the first known examples of police seizing Facebook user data as part of an abortion investigation.

Facebook gave a Nebraska teenager's Facebook messages to police investigating an alleged abortion, leading to criminal charges for the teen and her mother, Forbes reported.

Celeste Burgess, 17, was charged in July with allegedly removing, concealing or abandoning a dead body and hiding another person's death following what authorities say was a medication abortion when she was __ weeks pregnant. Her mother, Jessica Burgess, is also facing charges for allegedly helping her end the pregnancy. Both women's charges stem from a Nebraska state law banning abortion after __ weeks of pregnancy.

I don't know precisely what constitutes a 'medication abortion' in this case as such medications are prescription only... so there may have been other facilitators, or something was provided through fraud with poor oversight.

not one response??

Okay, I'll do it myself.

This was an abortion at 23 weeks in a state where the law is 20 weeks. They received a 'medical' abortion... which to my understanding of the issues... is either a massive overdose of plan b, or a prescriber was complicit.

If the former, I don't know exactly what we do about that... but we should look to do something I'd think... and if the latter, then I believe a crime may have been committed.... and we should investigate how they got those medications. If it was a complicit or careless provider, then I believe punishment of the provider is warranted, INCLUDING if the act is intentional and egregious enough, incarceration.

What is the point of a law that makes it illegal to KILL (abort/choose your adjective) a baby if there are no consequences for doing so? Illegally killing a convicted SERIAL child killer and rapist is still a crime, punishable potentially by your own death.... so why would there be (as there is in California) no punishment whatsoever for killing a child that the state (even California) has determined is to be protected?