A US teenager was sentenced to 90 days in prison after taking abortion pills to end her pregnancy and disposing of the foetus with her mother’s help.
Celeste Burgess, now 19, pleaded guilty to illegally concealing human remains after she had an abortion when around 28 weeks pregnant, beyond the 20-week limit then set by Nebraska law.
Her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, faces up to five years in prison for helping her.
Nebraska now bans abortion at 12 weeks.
Police opened the investigation into the mother and daughter in June 2022, before the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion and left it to states to determine whether or how to allow the procedure.
At the time, both mother and daughter, then 17, resided in Nebraska, where abortions had been banned at 20 weeks from conception. Earlier this year, Nebraska lawmakers passed an abortion ban at 12 weeks after conception.
According to court documents, Celeste Burgess was in her third trimester of pregnancy when she consumed […]
No longer free. The government has become a dictator that tells you what you can and cannot do.We need to educate the public and vote these wannabe dictators out of office.