“I’m Live-Tweeting My Abortion”

[ccharles000]

“I’m doing this to de-mystify abortion,” she says. “I’m doing this so other women know, ‘Hey, it’s not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was.’ It’s just not that bad.”

These are the words of Angie Jackson, a blogger and mother of a 4-year-old son. Her IUD birth control failed; she is four weeks pregnant and writing about her abortion on YouTube, her personal blog, and on Twitter under the hashtag #livetweetingabortion.

Last Thursday, Jackson visited a Planned Parenthood where her doctor gave her the first dose of RU-486, the abortion pill. (Note: The abortion pill is not the same as the morning-after pill.) She had to take four more pills — swallowing two and letting two others dissolve in her mouth—on Friday and Saturday.

She hasn’t taken to her various media platforms to show the graphic parts of her abortion. Instead, Jackson is chronicling how her abortion feels physically and emotionally — as she puts it on YouTube, “It’s just not that bad.” It’s almost like guerilla sex ed.

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-im-live-tweeting-my-abortion-on-twitter/

[Solly Mack]

1. Katie Couric's colon was/is splashed all over TV/Net & people became more aware of colon cancer

and the need for screenings.

A colonoscopy is a medical procedure. Abortion is a medical procedure. Demystify. Inform. Empower.

[paulsby]

3. i agree

from BOTH sides.

a lot of pro-choice people get pissed off when anti-choicers parade around pictures of aborted fetuses (especially late term ones).

i have NO problem with that.

demystify it.

i feel the same way about the death penalty for that matter, too.

or pretty much any public policy.

i'm pro choice, and i have no problem seeing the results of the procedure.

[ck4829]

2. Anti-choicers must be having so many meltdowns over this that they're becoming radioactive

K&R

[Syrinx]

4. "I'm tweeting my abortion"

Candidate for the most bizarre statement ever. What a weird country this has become.

EDIT to clarify: It isn't her abortion.

[liberal N proud]

5. I understand the motive

But the means are a little bazaar

[Love Bug]

6. Good for her!

This is a personal decision she has decided to make for her own good and the good of her family. If she feels comfortable de-mystifying it, why not? I'm tired of even pro-choice people expecting women who abort to wear sackcloth and ashes over it.

For a lot of women this information is going to be helpful. Fear is paralyzing and for her to risk the shit-storm she's undoubtably going to get from both sides to do this is a brave thing to do.

[ccharles000]

8. I agree

[postulater]

7. Whoa, is that her photo?