19-Year-Old Girl Sent to Jail for Self-Managed Abortion in Nebraska

Far right lawmakers have been ramping up the criminalization of abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

A 19-year-old woman in Nebraska has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for ending a pregnancy with abortion pills. Although she was 17 when she ended her pregnancy in April 2022, she was charged as an adult and faced up to two years in prison. Self-managed abortion is only explicitly illegal in Nevada and South Carolina, not in Nebraska. But prosecutors have criminalized...

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