The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
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Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#2>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use.
28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#3>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. 28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
I'm still really surprised. Surprised that a prosecution happened for a 17-year-old girl. And that Facebook gave that 17-year-old girl's private messages to the police to facilitate that prosecution.
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#4>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. 28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
I'm still really surprised. Surprised that a prosecution happened for a 17-year-old girl. And that Facebook gave that 17-year-old girl's private messages to the police to facilitate that prosecution.
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Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#5>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. 28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
I'm still really surprised. Surprised that a prosecution happened for a 17-year-old girl. And that Facebook gave that 17-year-old girl's private messages to the police to facilitate that prosecution.
> Surprised that a prosecution happened for a 17-year-old girl.
Yes, this is a total waste. Is this making the world a better place?
> And that Facebook gave that 17-year-old girl's private messages to the police to facilitate that prosecution.
I'm not surprised that Facebook complied with a lawfully issued search warrant.
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#6>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. 28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
Weeks is a reasonable metric; it's what's used in those laws in Europe, too.
Note that there's a ~2 week difference in the week metric between the way we talk about pregnancy (weeks since LMP) and the way these laws are generally written (weeks since conception).
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#7>In this case, Burgess was 28 weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. 28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
I don’t think using weeks was anything other than following regular practice. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy:
“Childbirth typically occurs around 40 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period (LMP), a span known as the gestational age. This is just over nine months. Counting by fertilization age, the length is about 38 weeks.”
I think that’s because months vary in length, making it relatively hard for people to count with them. Example: 28 weeks isn’t 7 months, it is slightly less than 6½ average months (6 months is a tiny bit over 26 weeks, and two weeks under half an average month)
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#8This is an incredibly sad story all around. The saddest part, to me, was that for whatever reason they chose to wait rather than legally ending the pregnancy much earlier. The fetus aborted was 28 weeks, or 7 months, and almost certainly viable.
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#9I'll preface this by saying that I am pro-choice, but 28 weeks is late, very late.
> Survival rates for infants born at 28 weeks gestation is between 80-90 percent. Babies born at 28 weeks old only have a 10 percent chance of having long-term health problems.
Re: The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
#10I'll preface this by saying that I am pro-choice, but 28 weeks is late, very late. > Survival rates for infants born at 28 weeks gestation is between 80-90 percent. Babies born at 28 weeks old only have a 10 percent chance of having long-term health problems.
It doesn’t make the way the case was prosecuted any less dystopian really. Just all-around awful.
The real question was why they (the defendants) felt they had to do it the way they did and couldn’t involve a medical professional.