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The lawyer for a Nebraska grandmother accused of illegally aborting her viable, late-term unborn grandchild and then burning the body wants a judge to drop two charges against her, arguing the unborn baby was not legally a “person.”
Jessica Burgess, 41, of Norfolk, could face up to eight years in prison for allegedly giving abortion pills to her 17-year-old daughter and aborting her unborn grandchild in April. According to police, Burgess allegedly burned and then buried the baby’s body after the abortion.
In court Wednesday, her lawyer Brad Ewalt asked District Judge Mark Johnson to throw out two of the five charges, arguing that the unborn baby was not legally a person yet under state and federal law, KTIV News 4 reports .
Ewalt said Burgess should not be charged with concealing the death of another person because the law does not recognize unborn babies as persons.“Fetuses do not become legally ‘living’ […]
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