'It’s fucking fucked up,” a lawyer said of the move days before Jessica Burgess is sentenced for buying her daughter abortion pills and burying fetal remains.
to three charges in exchange for prosecutors dropping two others .Kidvai noted the hypocrisy of prosecutors charging Burgess with providing an abortion after 20 weeks—a law ostensibly meant for clinics and abortion providers, or anyone charging money for the procedure—after agreeing to drop a charge that she performed an abortion without a medical license.
They added prosecutors don’t care that Burgess obviously isn’t an abortion provider, because their strategy is just about “punishing someone for loving someone—their child, specifically, who’s in crisis.” Prosecutors often “throw everything at somebody so that they’re facing the highest possible consequences,” because it gives them more leverage, Kidvai said.
“People plead guilty to things because the power of the state has crushed them,” Kidvai said. After the judge in this case canceled the psychological evaluation he ordered, the crushing power of the state is even more clear.
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