(08-10-2022, 09:39 AM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(08-10-2022, 09:34 AM)mikesez Wrote: I do think the law needs to be pretty nuanced when it comes to abortion.  Considering that in most states, girls 17 and under can't always legally consent to sex, so in most cases such acts are legally prosecutable as rape, the law should give more leeway for girls 17 and under to get early abortions if desired.  The default position should be that they are victims, either of force or manipulation.  I get that that's not a perfectly consistent philosophy or ethic of life, but these are very very messy issues.

Even so, I would prosecute this girl in Nebraska.  She had 20 weeks to seek a legal abortion and she would have known she was pregnant for most of that time.

One of the problems with that line of thinking is the unequal protection under the law. Women of means can just go somewhere that abortion is completely legal, right up to birth, while a child like the one in question doesn't have means and is instead forced to incubate a foreign entity against their will due to where they live.

Abortion is legal where she was…she just waited too long to avail herself of it. You’re really stretching yourself with this case.

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(08-10-2022, 09:12 AM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(08-10-2022, 09:02 AM)EricC85 Wrote: Your ok with someone killing a 28 week old fetus? That's a fully developed baby at that point and then she buried the body and told everyone it was a miscarriage. Yea lock that sick [BLEEP] up

I do think it's weird that she buried a fetus body, however, I also think the police shouldn't be going to Facebook and taking people's private information because they reportedly had a miscarriage.

I'll just put you down for yes to police state as long as there was a miscarriage.

You missed the part where they received a tip telling police they improperly disposed of the remains…which is what they were charged with btw, not for having an abortion. They’d have been charged with the same thing if she really had had an abortion.

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