Thu Jul 27, 2023 – 6:00 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Democrats in Congress are seizing on a pervasive misrepresentation of a grisly child killing out of Nebraska in their attempt to turn the public against pro-life laws by claiming they subject troubled pregnant teenagers to criminal prosecution.
Last week, 19-year-old Celeste Burgess was sentenced to 90 days in prison and two years’ probation for removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead body when she procured abortion pills to kill her preborn baby at 23 weeks, then burned and buried the body. Earlier this month, her mother Jessica pled guilty to assisting with the crime.
Celeste was not charged for taking abortion pills, which have been illegal past 20 weeks in Nebraska since before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, though her mother was charged with helping facilitate the abortion. Despite the facts of the case, many in the press attempted to present it as proof women and girls were starting to be thrown in jail simply for taking abortion pills.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota called the situation a “freighting [sic] violation of privacy and autonomy,” and Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted
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