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Woman twitters her abortion

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Woman twitters her abortion via RU486.

Angie Jackson live-tweets her abortion to 'demystify' procedure, receives death threats


Okay so what do people think of this? Support it? Think she's nuts?

When I saw the headline, I was appalled. I thought, "People are twittering abortions?" :shock: One of the reasons she said she did it was to demystify the process. You know, that reason, I understand, and I kind of support what she did. I could see that being something that would help a woman decide whether she could take that pill.
 
Meh...Attention whores, they're everywhere.


Death threats, though? Where are we, Saudi Arabia?
 
aps said:
Woman twitters her abortion via RU486.

Angie Jackson live-tweets her abortion to 'demystify' procedure, receives death threats


Okay so what do people think of this? Support it? Think she's nuts?

When I saw the headline, I was appalled. I thought, "People are twittering abortions?" :shock: One of the reasons she said she did it was to demystify the process. You know, that reason, I understand, and I kind of support what she did. I could see that being something that would help a woman decide whether she could take that pill.
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i do not support this, but then again, i think twitter should be outlawed. ;-)
 
Twittering while going through it? No, I don't agree with that. It's attention seeking and given the predictably responses and threats, not a very smart thing to do for her safety or that of her family.

Making a blog entry or posting about it somewhere on the internet in order to demystify it, great, but I don't think that was the foremost thought in her mind.
 
Whats their to demystify though? I can go to something like WebMD and look up what a drug does.
 
I'm 50/50 on this one.

I don't agree with her "sensationalizing" her abortion experience even though her intensions might have been genuinely noble and honest. But I think it is her right to have an abortion is she (and her significant other) both agree it is in their best interest. That said, I also think she could have carried the baby to term and given it up for adoption, but that is her choice.
 
That was STUPID!
 
Objective Voice said:
I'm 50/50 on this one.

I don't agree with her "sensationalizing" her abortion experience even though her intensions might have been genuinely noble and honest. But I think it is her right to have an abortion is she (and her significant other) both agree it is in their best interest. That said, I also think she could have carried the baby to term and given it up for adoption, but that is her choice.
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She doesn't need anybody to "agree" with her, it is her choice.
 
Objective Voice said:
I'm 50/50 on this one.

I don't agree with her "sensationalizing" her abortion experience even though her intensions might have been genuinely noble and honest. But I think it is her right to have an abortion is she (and her significant other) both agree it is in their best interest. That said, I also think she could have carried the baby to term and given it up for adoption, but that is her choice.
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it's her right to abort, and her right to twitter, but that doesn't mean her intentions were anywhere near noble. what's next, twittering a suicide?
revolting, imo.
 
megaprogman said:
Whats their to demystify though? I can go to something like WebMD and look up what a drug does.
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True, but it's one thing to read about the experience after the fact and watch a person going through it. People's statements made in the moment are inherently credible (hence, the reason why statements made in those circumstances are an exception to the hearsy rule). I'd find her description of the experience one I could rely on versus what is written in a book by who knows who.
 
Sounds like she made a tough, thoughtful, personal decision. Her concerns were for her life and the future of her special needs child. I feel for her and support her decision. I would suggest she look into getting her tubes tied to avoid this situation in the future.

Here is one idiot's reply to her, showing just how ignorant some people are.
If her intention was to not get pregnant after the birth of her first-born then why not get a hysterectomy?
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ADK_Forever said:
Sounds like she made a tough, thoughtful, personal decision. Her concerns were for her life and the future of her special needs child. I feel for her and support her decision. I would suggest she look into getting her tubes tied to avoid this situation in the future.

Here is one idiot's reply to her, showing just how ignorant some people are.
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You know, pregnancy is completely preventable these days. I knew I didn't want children after my son was born. I had a tubal ligation.

While I believe that abortion should be legal, that doesn't mean that it is commendable. I personally find the practice reprehensible and morally repugnant, and "demystifying" it (i.e., IMO celebrating) it is in no way a positive.

Nor do I consider the comment quoted by you to be particularly stupid. There are permanent means of preventing an unwanted pregnancy. The twitterer should have availed herself of one of them, and been more responsible with her reproductive health. A person who thoughtlessly creates life only to kill it makes me sick.
 
It's her right to abortion and her right to twitter. I think it was attention seeking non-sense, mostly, but we live in a voyeuristic age where people can passively monitor the lives of others through "social networking". If we accept this practice in general then we're going to have to accept that people will use it in shocking ways.

The other thing is... she didn't demystify very much. A simple google search will reveal way more detail than she shared. All she did was put a personal choice on display like so many do with facebook and twitter, in order to get feedback. I don't find her reasoning very believable.

The death threats though... grow up people. This isn't Iran.
 
OKgrannie said:
She doesn't need anybody to "agree" with her, it is her choice.
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And we have the choice to think her a pretty damn ignorant attention-seeking whore.
 
ADK_Forever said:
Sounds like she made a tough, thoughtful, personal decision. Her concerns were for her life and the future of her special needs child. I feel for her and support her decision. I would suggest she look into getting her tubes tied to avoid this situation in the future.

Here is one idiot's reply to her, showing just how ignorant some people are.
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she didn't bother to keep her choice personal, thoguh.
 
Orion said:
The death threats though... grow up people. This isn't Iran.
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That's the part that bothers me. It's a free country, she has a right to be as tasteless as she wants. It's not necessary to kill her to express an opposing viewpoint.
 
ADK_Forever said:
Nothing says a personal choice must remain private.
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absolutely true. having tweeted her abortion, though, she's opened herself up for whatever criticism comes her way.
 
Twittering is the latest example of our narcissistic society. What about the woman in Florida who twittered when her son was getting CPR after drowning in their pool? The whole genre is absurd.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
Twittering is the latest example of our narcissistic society. What about the woman in Florida who twittered when her son was getting CPR after drowning in their pool? The whole genre is absurd.
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as catz noted, attention whores. disgusting.
 
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