Normalcy is going mainstream, folks.
Every day, things are just going to keep getting more and more normal until everything is so normal that you just can’t even take it anymore.
In the near future, news stories will be so extremely normal that you won’t be able to read the news without feeling like you’re going to have a psychotic breakdown.
That’s what a utopia is all about: things being really, really, normal.
A Nebraska mother and her teenage daughter have been charged with felonies for allegedly carrying out an illegal home abortion, and then attempting to burn and bury the fetus — which the pregnant girl referred to as a “thing” she wanted “out of her body,” authorities said.
Jessica Burgess, 41, has been charged in Madison County with performing or attempting an abortion greater than 20 weeks, performing an abortion when not a licensed doctor, removing/concealing/abandoning a dead human body, concealing the death of another person and false reporting, according to CBS14.
Her daughter, Celeste Burgess, who is now 18 years old, has been charged as an adult with removing/concealing/abandoning a dead human body, concealing the death of another person and false reporting.
Both the mother and daughter have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them stemming from Celeste’s pregnancy termination in April, when she was just 17 years old.
A third person, 22-year-old Tanner Barnhill, has been charged with attempted concealing the death of another person for allegedly helping the Burgesses bury the aborted fetus.
According to court documents, in April, police in Norfolk received a tip claiming that Celeste had given birth to a stillborn baby in a bathtub a week earlier.
When an investigator interviewed the teen, she allegedly confirmed that she had a miscarriage after midnight on April 22, and said that she and her mother placed the fetus in a bag in the back of their van, according to the court papers.
Jessica and Celeste also said that Barnhill, whose relationship to the two women has not been revealed, later helped them bury the fetus on his property.
Police were led to the makeshift gravesite and unearthed the corpse, which was found to show signs of “thermal injuries,” the documents stated.
Barnhill reportedly confirmed to the investigators that the mother and daughter had attempted to burn the fetus before putting it in the ground.
Then on June 7, according to the filings, a Norfolk detective obtained bombshell Facebook messages between Celeste and her mom as part of a search warrant, revealing their alleged plot to perform a home abortion.
The exchanges from April 20 allegedly suggested that Jessica had obtained abortion pills for her daughter, who was 23 weeks pregnant at the time, and instructed her how to take them.
“(Celeste) talks about how she can’t wait to get the ‘thing’ out of her body and reaffirms with (Jessica) that they will burn the evidence afterwards,” the detective wrote in court records.
Under Nebraska law, abortions past 20 weeks are illegal. Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican, has been pushing for a near-total ban on abortions without exceptions for rape or incest.
Can you even imagine what this would look like in this home? Cutting this infant out and then trying to burn it?
Picture the series of events in your mind like it was a movie. It shows how vulgar and satanic the entire concept of abortion actually is.
A Nebraska teenager is being charged as an adult for what the state says was an illegal abortion. Detectives got her medical records & went through her Facebook messages to build their case.https://t.co/RUxy4vd0z8
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) August 8, 2022
Worth noting that this is the kind of digital surveillance experts have been warning about: Not just your period tracking apps, but texts, FB messages, etc.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) August 8, 2022
This happens regularly. I had to sign a blank records release form while under investigation, the judge ordered it.
— BeKind24/7 (@Meg_22q) August 8, 2022
But seriously, that poor girl and her poor mother. Conservative women: you can vote Democratic to fix this and pivot back after you’ve run the council of Gilead out of your states.
— Literally no one is treading on you (@BimBach) August 8, 2022
Jail the detectives. This is a gross violation of privacy and medical rights.
— Jón Frímann (@jonfr500) August 8, 2022
So what? This is a private medical issue and no business of the state. Any equivocation is tantamount to sympathy for the state prosecution.
— Nathonius (@Nathonius1) August 8, 2022
And the anti-abortion catastrophe is analogous to that. I keep thinking nothing can shock me anymore and I keep being shocked.
— Felicity Merriman, DAE (@realfmerriman) August 8, 2022
— Stephanie K. Merrill (@skmerrill3) August 8, 2022