cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

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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[–] 27 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

At this point, they'll just say "yeah, but these people did a crime. I don't do crimes so I have nothing to worry about". The problem with that mentality, I would hope, doesn't need to be stated.

I stopped trying to change the world.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is the perfect example of why you should be worried. Because your government can turn into a fascist dictatorship at any time and you ain't getting that data back.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How is this an example of the government turning into a "fascist dictatorship"?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Reading comprehension is hard, so I'll help you out.

    This [event mentioned on the news] is the perfect example of why you should be worried. Because your government can [i.e. has the potential to] turn into a fascist dictatorship at any time [which is unrelated to this specific piece of news, being a hypothetical scenario] and you ain’t getting that data back.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can read just fine, I'm just wondering how you correlate this with the possibility of the government turning into a fascist dictatorship. They're 2 completely unrelated things, that's why I'm confused to why you put them together. You even literally say it's unrelated to this piece of news.....

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Are you serious, or being a pitiful basement troll?

    Action is not illegal → Service provider has unprivateable data on action → Action becomes illegal → You now have confessed to your crime

    Can't make it much more obvious

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are you being serious, or just being a pitiful basement troll yourself?

    You're saying because they did thing A it means you should be wary because thing Z might happen, even though things A and Z have literally nothing to do with each other nor does A happening give any likelihood of Z happening.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    I agree that these people did a crime.

    I just don't think their crime should be illegal.

    If this was about murdering a full-grown adult and not aborting a fetus, nobody would be talking about privacy concerns. Guaranteed.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How do you know they committed a crime. After reading the article I don’t know. It looks totally as if it’s possible that she just had a miscarriage.

    Maybe there’s just a prosecutor eager for convictions.

    Maybe she was trying do avoid exactly this kind of trouble.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Also, there's no general agreement or scientific pointing of where life and consciousness is started on a fetus so, if the government job is to conserve the life of a individual, a fetus life still matters and shouldn't be taken by neither the parents or anyone else.

    Brazil (ironically enough) has a good constitution about about abortion where's it is strictly prohibited unless some cases apply like: the baby has developed no brain, the baby has originated from a sexual assault case or the process of giving birth or the pregnancy itself represents a risk of death for the mother. It is simple, states that life's have the same values as well as showing the individual rights matter.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Why do you think a life created by sexual assault is less valuable than a life created otherwise? Isn’t the resulting life the same?

    Thinking this through might help you understand the tradeoffs behind most abortions. Pregnancy is dangerous, childbirth is dangerous, parenting is incredibly difficult.

    A child could push a family into poverty and devastate siblings’ futures. How do you evaluate the harm caused by that against the harm caused by being forced to carry a child produced by sexual assault?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    A child could push a family into poverty and devastate siblings’ futures.

    A child can also be put up for adoption btw.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you care so much, go ahead and adopt a child.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nah I'm ok. If she wanted an abortion she should have gotten one in the 20 weeks where she's legally allowed to. Doesn't seem like a hard thing to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But you seem oh so worried about the children. What's stopping you?

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It is not less valuable but the way it was created was against the individual rights of the mother.

    I agree abortion laws are about trade-offs as I showed in my example and that's why abortion shouldn't be legal in the cases I stated. Abortion shouldn't be legal for anyone cause, if it was in a consensual relationship, the mother assumed the risk of pregnancy.

    The only lives that are less valuable are those which deliberately risk or take way the others' lives.

    Also, thanks for being respectful.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The only lives that are less valuable are those which deliberately risk or take way the others’ lives.

    By choosing to be alive, you're impacting all present and future generations, causing the deaths of potentially billions of humans and countless other animals. Do you see how your attempted distinction doesn't actually exist?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    You're joking, right? First, abortions aren't mentioned in the Brazilian constitution - you'd have to look at specific legal codices, such as the Civil Code or the Penal Code. Second, that's the bare minimum, not "pretty good".

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago

    The objective is supposed to be to find the situations where abortion would be fair a fair trade-off of lives and rights, not to try to speedrun the abortion rank; it makes no sense you're saying it is bare minimum when the objective is to reduce it as it is inherently bad.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I agree with you, but I don't think I could explicitly state what's wrong with that mentality. Can you humor me and state it?

    Edit: can someone else take a shot at it? Tge parent comment is essentially saying "people will counter with X, but everyone knows that doesn't make sense". It's clear that something is wrong with that mentality, but it obviously would have a very real benefit of stating it's flaws since the whole premise of this is that some people don't know what's wrong with that mentality.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The obvious, unspoken part is: what is legal now isn't guaranteed to be legal two seconds in the future, and likewise to what is illegal. The law gives you no guarantee of being ethical nor moral, it's simply a collection of behaviors either sanctioned or unsanctioned by the State.

    As a clear example, you may tell me how much you love breathing in fresh air. If, tomorrow, breathing fresh air is made illegal, you've just shared with me a confession to a crime.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for actually doing this.

    I guess that can also be extended to things that can accidentally be suspicious. Imagine if Colonel Mustard, who "doesn't have anything to hide", let the police search their trunk and found a broken candle stick. Even though he wasn't being searched for that in particular, now he's a suspect in Mrs. Peacock's murder at the gazebo (Clue reference).

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