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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

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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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[-] Dioxy@programming.dev 69 points 1 year ago

What year is it

[+] Chippyr@sh.itjust.works -12 points 1 year ago

She was 7 months pregnant. That baby is viable outside the womb in many scenarios. It’s disgusting to abort a child at that point. The local law allows abortions up to 5 months into the pregnancy (20 weeks). That’s plenty of time to make a decision, and a pretty liberal allowance. Prosecution of this mother and daughter is justified and there is nothing wrong with Meta complying with the info request.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for adding some nuance that people might miss if they just read the headline. This girl broke some long established abortion laws by aborting at 7 months like you said. She is definitely in the wrong here.

At the same time, I don't like meta for violating people's privacy and working with law enforcement. Make law enforcement do their own jobs.

Still, I don't feel sorry for them. These women definitely dug their own hole. You think it would be obvious to people by now to not talk about illegal things on any social media, especially meta.

[-] Chippyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Also, meta was served a search warrant. They were required by law to comply.

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