The New York Times‘ abortion advocacy is shining through with its headline about a Nebraska teenager who pled guilty to concealing or abandoning a dead body.
There is so much wrong with the NYT and other publications with this story.
Here’s the thing. Celeste Burgess, 18, wasn’t found guilty of an illegal abortion (emphasis mine):
A Nebraska woman pleaded guilty Monday to burning and concealing a fetus after she took medication to end her pregnancy, while prosecutors move forward with a criminal case accusing her mother of illegally helping with the abortion.Prosecutors said Celeste Burgess gave birth to the stillborn fetus about 29 weeks and five days into her pregnancy. She was 17 at the time, but prosecutors charged her as an adult.Burgess, now 18, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of concealing or abandoning a dead body and prosecutors dropped two misdemeanor charges. The fetus was found buried in a field north of Norfolk in northeast Nebraska.
Also, Celeste’s abortion would have been illegal before the Dobbs decision, mainly because the crime happened BEFORE the Dobbs decision.
The crime happened in the spring of 2022. We didn’t even know about Alito’s opinion until May 2022. The decision came out in June 2022.
Nebraska made it a felony for doctors to perform abortions after 20 weeks.
That was BEFORE Dobbs.
After Dobbs, Nebraska made abortion illegal after 12 weeks.
Celeste’s mother, Jessica, pleaded guilty to “providing an illegal abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, false reporting and tampering with human skeletal remains.”
Disgusting behavior. The documents say that Celeste told her mother, “I will finally be able to wear jeans.”
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