America is not a usual source I go to, but this article points out the manipulation of the facts by pro-choicers and the deceptive media coverage of a Nebraska teen who aborted her child and violated the law about human remains - all before the Dobbs decision. The article begins:
The scene was admittedly heartbreaking: a young woman, in handcuffs, being escorted from the courtroom after being sentenced to 90 days in prison (with a 40-day reduction for good behavior). The image was circulated widely on social media and, along with it, inaccurate and outright false headlines dominating the extensive coverage of the story.
“Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess gets 90 days behind bars for late-term abortion,” claimed the New York Post. Rolling Stone’s headline added to the hysteria, insisting, “Nebraska Teen Sent to Jail Over Illegal Abortion.” Other outlets used the sentencing story to raise the specter of police obtaining “period app tracking information, or other private data” to be used in the criminal prosecution of women who have abortions.
But the underlying facts behind the photo are far from simple. In the months leading up to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, law enforcement in Norfolk, Neb. (about 115 miles northwest of Omaha), received a tip that the body of a stillborn baby had recently been buried by two women in a local field.
As it is a crime in the state of Nebraska to knowingly bury human remains “in any place other than a regular place for burial and under a proper death certificate issued,” police pursued the tip, questioning Jessica Burgess and her then 17-year-old daughter, Celeste, who had been identified by the anonymous caller. ...
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