>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...
28 weeks is, of course, 7 months. Third trimester elective abortion is illegal in the UK, Spain, France, Germany...
“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)
The 17-year-old will be tried as an adult, on a felony and two misdemeanor charges.
Motherboard adds: "Facebook and other tech platforms have previously declined to say whether they would give law enforcement data that relates to abortion cases. This case shows that Facebook, at least, will and already has."
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).
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904650/meta-facebook-me...
This is, literally, a lie. Both messenger and WhatsApp have e2ee implemented.
So this is not clear cut now.
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.
It is both deeply tragic and entirely typical that a case like this is progressing in the US.
(I'll probably get down voted for this because whenever I bring this kind of thing up people seem to get personally offended. Even though it's not your talking point, you picked up somewhere recently)
I think what most Europeans find difficult to understand is quite how partisan the US system is and how little support is available for those caught up in legal difficulties of this kind.
Just my impression of course, but impression seems to be what a lot of it is about.
Why should we care what the European standard for abortion is?
Whether or not they have other freedoms that we don't have is irrelevant.
It's tragic to think of the circumstances that drove somebody to this, but you could say that about any act of violence.