{"id":294565,"date":"2023-07-12T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294565"},"modified":"2023-07-12T01:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:01:39","slug":"mother-pleads-guilty-daughter-illegal-abort-bury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-pleads-guilty-daughter-illegal-abort-bury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother pleads guilty after helping daughter illegally abort and bury body of baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Nebraska woman pled guilty on Friday to giving her 17-year-old daughter abortion pills illegally last year and then helping to burn and bury the deceased baby.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, Jessica Burgess, 42, pled guilty as part of a plea deal to “providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, false reporting, and tampering with human skeletal remains.” Charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dropped.<\/p>\n

Last October, Jessica’s lawyer had asked for the dismissal of those charges based on the claim that the infant was not a legal person. \u201cFetuses do not become legally \u2018living\u2019 until they are born alive and breathe independently,\u201d he said<\/a> at the time. \u201cFetuses delivered dead by miscarriage or abortion are not legally cognizant \u2018persons\u2019 under Nebraska and federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burgess procured the abortion pills for her daughter, Celeste, who was 29 weeks pregnant at the time, though chemical abortion is only approved by the FDA through 10 weeks of pregnancy and abortion was only legal through 20 weeks of pregnancy in the state of Nebraska.<\/p>\n