Nebraska Mom in Abortion-Pill Case Gets Two Years in Prison – The Cut

life after roe Updated 3:05 P.M. Nebraska Mom Gets Prison Time for Giving Daughter Abortion Pills By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for the Cut who covers systems of power.  She specializes in gender issues and abortion rights, which she has been covering for seven years. Her work has also appeared in The Lily, Insider, Cosmopolitan, GEN by Medium, and Refinery29, among other outlets. Photo: Jamie Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF A Nebraska mother who faced criminal charges after helping her teen daughter self-manage her abortion with pills last year was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. Jessica Burgess, 42, took a plea deal in July and admitted to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing, or abandoning a dead body. Her sentencing went forward despite the fact that a judge had canceled Burgess’s court-ordered psychological evaluation last week owing to a lack of funding. Her daughter, Celeste Burgess, who was 17 when she used abortion pills to end her pregnancy in April 2022, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one felony charge of concealing or abandoning a dead body. In exchange, the prosecutors dropped two other misdemeanor charges. At her
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