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.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why should we continue birthing children when we already have so many that are insufficiently cared for?

    If you, personally, would assume responsibility for this child, great, but otherwise leave it up to the individual.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      The morality of having children at all is a separate point entirely. There are countless ways this could have ended or been prevented long before the fetus was viable outside the womb.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Pregnancy can never be 100 % prevented. Unless you sterilise someone. And you do not know the reasons for why this girl didn’t go through abortion earlier.