“They subpoenaed Facebook - who cooperated without any pushback - to find out more information. Regardless of what is in those messages, they thought she had an abortion,” she wrote. “A lot of people are missing the point here. Pro-choice activist Olivia Julianna tweeted Tuesday that women should delete their Facebook accounts in response to the case, causing the hashtag #DeleteFacebook to trend. The chats reportedly show Jessica Burgess referring to “What i ordered last month” and instructing her to take two pills 24 hours apart. McBride applied for a warrant in June, seizing six smartphones and seven laptops and ordering Facebook to turn over chats between the mother and daughter. Celeste Burgess claimed she had a miscarriage at 23 weeks gestation. According to a sworn affidavit from Detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk Police Investigations Unit, a woman claiming to be a friend of the daughter said she saw the teenager take the first abortion pill in April.Ībortion is illegal in Nebraska past 20 weeks post-fertilization. Jessica Burgess reportedly ordered abortion pills in March to abort her teenage daughter’s pregnancy. The mother was additionally charged with “performing or attempting an abortion on a pregnancy at more than 20 weeks and performing an abortion as a non-licensed doctor.” Jessica Burgess, 41, and her daughter, Celeste, 18, were charged in July “with allegedly removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body,” concealing the death of another person and false reporting. According to court documents, Nebraska police obtained the Facebook chats after serving the social media website with a warrant.
Wade and returning the abortion issue to the states. Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, overturning Roe v. The investigation was launched in April before the U.S. | Charles McQuillan/Getty ImagesĪ pro-life legal researcher does not believe a case in which Facebook had to turn over private chats between a mother and daughter to Nebraska police as part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the girl’s abortion could become common in a post- Roe world. An unindentified woman displays an abortion pill packet after taking one of the pills as abortion rights campaign group ROSA, Reproductive Rights Against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity distribute abortion pills from a touring bus on in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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