Private Facebook chats between a Nebraska mother and her daughter has been used by law enforcement to build a criminal case against the teen for getting a now-illegal abortion in her home state.of cops obtaining a search warrant and essentially forcing a tech company to help them prosecute an abortion case.to five criminal charges including felonies for administering abortion pills to her then-17-year-old daughter, and then helping bury the fetus, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
A Norfolk Police detective, Ben McBride, began investigating the two women in late April, months before US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. However, under an earlier], Burgess claimed to have given birth to a stillborn child when she was around 23 weeks pregnant, after reportedly taking abortion pills.
Using this type of data to prosecute women seeking abortions is exactly the scenario that digital privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm over since it became increasingly clear that the Court intended to overturn constitutional abortion protections.
'Post Roe' abortion case, that was somehow initiated PRE Roe. Those damn time travelling cops.
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