[newfonewhodis]

Some points that folks on this thread are missing:

1. This is not a story about when a pregnancy can/should be terminated.

2. The person in this story is a child - 17 years old. Many times, what seems like normal weight gain ends up being a pregnancy. This is especially true for younger/skinnier folks.

3. Remove the hot-button issue - abortion - from this story and consider the implications. Two people were having what they thought was a private conversation.

HN crowd is not representative of the real world where FB/Messenger is essential AND where people don't understand privacy (and social) implications of using FB.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

> Two people were having what they thought was a private conversation.

They can now be the poster girl(s) for two causes: "more abortion" and "facebook isn't private".

[abigail95]

At the risk of being extremely inflammatory,

Plenty of criminals think they are having a private conversation, when in fact, the government is listening in.

What they did was a crime in Nebraska. It has been a crime in Nebraska for decades (centuries?).

The government used due process to get a subpoeona for information to investigate a crime.

Yes, the wounded parties here will feel like their privacy was violated, but from the information we have in the article, it seems justified.

The privacy and social implications have been the same for decades: your communications can be intercepted or retrieved by law enforcement, so if there is probable cause that you committed a crime, someone might go looking.