What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Just weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a Nebraska woman and her daughter were charged with performing an illegal abortion, thanks to information that law enforcement uncovered by going through their Facebook accounts. Guest: Johana Bhuiyan, senior reporter on tech and surveillance for The Guardian Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2	Last spring, police in Norfolk, Nebraska got a tip.
0:37.8	That a pregnant teenage girl had miscarried,
0:40.2	and that she and her mother had secretly buried the stillborn fetus.
0:44.7	After an investigation, the police charged Jessica Burgess,
0:48.2	who was 41, and her 17-year-old daughter Celeste,
0:51.9	with removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body.
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1:00.0	Celeste reportedly said she'd given birth unexpectedly in the shower,
1:03.9	and said her mother helped her put the fetal remains in a bag,
1:07.4	drive them out of town, and bury them.
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