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.

    • Beetschnapps
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      91 year ago

      @PepperDust @pulaskiwasright that’s the fucked up part. As a man you have the benefit of not needing to know what to think. Women don’t get that luxury. Yet every man’s opinion gets to dictate women’s legality.

      • @[email protected]
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        -31 year ago

        That’s how democracy works. Every man has just as much power over whether or not abortion should be legal as every woman has power over whether or not men have to register for the draft.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            I’m pointing out that in a democracy, people really do make laws for things that they don’t do. It couldn’t work any other way.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          There hasn’t been a draft since the 1970s. It’s hardly an issue anymore. Yet women have been actually dying and suffering because of a lack of access to life saving medical care since Roe was overturned last year.

          • @[email protected]
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            -11 year ago

            Absolutely correct. My point though is that saying “men don’t get to have an opinion” is a silly, and unproductive argument in favor of what should he abortion rights. Representative democracy wouldn’t function at all if no one was allowed to have an opinion on things that they don’t do directly and not let those opinions influence how they vote. That’s a silly argument.