Live tweeting abortion, Part II: The parasite thing it roach squatter tapeworm
Read Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, and Part X. Pro-lifers can share their thoughts at #livetweetingabortion.
In Part II Angie Jackson justifies her abortion. Again, some of the tweets I pulled are random glimpses into her dismal situation. Others show Angie’s anger, contradictory thoughts, some sick jokes (note in particular Feb 13, 1:46p and 4:50p), and wild and various attempts to dehumanize her baby. WARNING: vulgarity….
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Ashley, hang tight. She admits in an upcoming episode that she stretched the truth on her contraceptive use…
She was healthy enough to attend a broadway show in the middle of her travail, tho. Laffin.
She was healthy enough to attend a broadway show in the midst of her travail, tho. Laffin.
Remember: Abortion is not something that women take lightly . . .
Honestly, it’s as if she plagurized this whole thing off a blog that was written by a woman I know about a year ago. The similarities are chilling. Single-mom, just moved in with a new guy, claimed (but later renounced) birth-control. Blogged the most venomous attacks at her unborn child. At the time I wanted so badly to shine a light on her blog so that more people could see the ugly reality of how people come to an abortion. I’m sure it’s been done before and will be done again. I just pray that people will become more disgusted rather than more hardened.
If nothing else this episode proves that abortion is far more than a simple choice between a woman and her doctor, and it affects far more than a few people.
She needs virtual hugs? She wants attention. And what will she do when no one is there and no one gives a crap anymore? Who will be there when shes alone and finally thinks about what she has done? Well we know Who will be there. Hope she does someday too.
It kinda hurts me that while she is planning her abortion of her 4/5 week old baby my friend was in the hospital losing her 4/5 week old baby. This woman was given a GIFT…
I think the real irony in this is that, she keeps claiming that her pregnancy is life-threatening and that she’s tweeting her abortion to “demystify” the process. However, when people ask her how her pregnancy is life-threatening, she’ll say “It’s none of your business” and get offended.
Except that when she set out to “demystify” things, she opened herself up to exactly those sorts of questions. In fact, answering these kinds of questions is the whole point of demystifying anything in the first place. Why are you doing this? What prompted it? What options did you examine? Those are the very questions this kind of thing should set out to answer, and yet she makes no attempt to answer any of them. Granted, she does have the right to limit what sorts of personal information she puts on the interweb. But if she had no intention of even the vaguest of possible answers (like maybe, “I saw a doctor who determined this pregnancy is life-threatening.”), why even do this in the first place?
I think that this is all a really sick ploy for attention…very disgusting. *bigotry- hee hee- bigotry*
This girl is clearly hurting, and portrays a person of choice not as the “empowered woman” facade that their camp is trying to sell, but rather as a girl who questions her relationship, blames men for her problems, is disconnected from her body, longs for the love of her family…broken, like all of us. I’ll be praying for her.
I frequently see women blaming their guilt, crying, depression, and pain regarding their abortion decision as “hormones”. I read another blog from a post abortive woman who continued to blame her shame and depression weeks after her abortion on her leftover hormones. It is complete and total denial, and eventually these women have to deal with those REAL emotions. Very sad.
I frequently see women blaming their guilt, crying, depression, and pain regarding their abortion decision on “hormones”. I read another blog from a post abortive woman who continued to blame her shame and depression weeks after her abortion on her leftover hormones. It is complete and total denial, and eventually these women have to deal with those REAL emotions. Very sad.
It’s always interesting how the worst-case scenario is presented as the definitive outcome, when someone wants to abort.
Angie has claimed the pregnancy would have threatened her life. Hmm . . . that fear didn’t stop her from having her first child.
She claims it would have been a special needs child. Unless testing was carried out, she has no way of knowing that.
She claims she couldn’t handle another child. Why then, did she not get sterilized after she had her son?
We live in a society were people refuse to make good choices and then look for an easy fix, at the cost of the innocent.
A woman’s ‘right to choose’ means another baby will lose.
What made my jaw drop is her admission that an ultrasound made her first child, the one she loves, “more real” to her, and now she is dead set against another, and even claims that the law requiring it is trying to “manipulate” her. She knows the child is human all right, and knows what she is doing, but won’t admit it. . . God help her.
Theyre only real when theyre wanted by proaborts, Lori. If not, they become clumps of tissue or bloodclots or roaches/squatters/tapeworms pretty quickly.
While all you anti-aborts (again, what’s with the plural verb and not the noun – abortion) are weeping and knashing your teeth about the murder (or is it just killing) of the baybee, you don’t seem to realize that you might be the victims of an extraordinarly punk. All the tweets of prayerful “pro-lifers” might just be the basis for some future snarky book. If it is a punk, it’s masterful. ROFLMAO!!!!
1. If her life is so at risk from pregnancy, why no tubal ligation? (There seems to be a chorus of “Pregnancy nearly killed me!” with no follow up of “So I had my tubes tied to prevent risking my life again!”) The whole thing makes me wonder what’s going on there.
2. Yeah, where’s the “I get gestational lupus” or whatever the health risk supposedly is? Is that just a ploy to gain sympathy, did she have a bad doctor the first time? And why are all these women “purple Macedonians”? (I.e. hardcore “hard cases” with everything possible going wrong at once — living in car with disabled child while s.o. is M.I.A., and she has life threatening health problems…. the only thing missing is “and I would have had to give up a full tuition scholarship to M.I.T”.)
3. Yeah, they’re pretty flippant. And I find it creepy how they blame the man and consider themselves “contaminated”. Why are they having sex with a man whose child they’d consider a contamination?
Thanks for feeling our pain, Artemis. Just imagine what kind of a book we could make out of your ignorant comments. It would be a comedy classic, I’m sure.
I find this refreshing. It shows that the choice made by a woman is to be commended. You all would rather want this poor girl to go through with a pregnancy that she CLEARLY does not want to go through with. I find her honesty and humor refreshing. I particularly enjoy that despite the venom from the pro-life fanatics, she maintains a strong will and is not ashamed of her choice. Kudos to her.
yeah. What a great choice she made. Get knocked up by a guy who self-admittedly hates children when you don’t want (more) children either, take some poison he buys you to kill your living child’s half-sibling, allow that same self-professed child-hater to babysit your kid while you pop vicodin/sit on the internet spewing venom at people who think you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing and lying about your contraceptive use/attend the theater. TOP-NOTCH!
3. Yeah, they’re pretty flippant. And I find it creepy how they blame the man and consider themselves “contaminated”. Why are they having sex with a man whose child they’d consider a contamination?
I don’t necessarily think it’s creepy, or an indication that they don’t intellectually and emotionally care for the men they’re sleeping with. Even among women who are actively trying to conceive, it’s not uncommon to feel somewhat “invaded” in the days/early weeks after finding out you’re pregnant. The idea of another human being inside of you can be pretty effective and discomforting, on a level that cuts to your core, until you process it and get accustomed to it. If you didn’t want to be pregnant in the first place, those feelings are probably stronger – it’s an irrational, emotional reaction of blame-placing.
Think of the stereotype of the woman giving birth who screams at the father, “How could you do this to me???” She isn’t rationally blaming him for impregnating her, or implying that he did something she didn’t want him to do. It’s an irrational reaction driven purely by emotions and physical pain.
At our expense, xalisae. On our dime.
My mother-in-law almost died both times she gave birth. With my sister-in-law and then when she had my husband she had lost so much blood they told my father-in-law to say goodbye to her. The priest actually gave her her last rites!
So my father-in-law got snipped because another pregnancy/birth WOULD have killed her. They DID NOT however continue to have sex and then kill any babies they made.
If your life is REALLY at risk from another birth or pregnancy you take REAL precautions to make sure it doesn’t happen…
And Jake, I’m sure you do find this girl’s abortion refreshing. Cause you’re probably one of those top-notch guys who spread his seed around and then drop his lady friends off at the clinic to have his baby scraped out…right?
Posted by: alexandra at February 23, 2010 7:55 PM
So, we should kill other people based on transient, irrational feelings? Yeah, sure.
Normal people KNOW that feelings of this kind are temporary, irrational feelings based on personal emotional factors and physical pain and don’t act on them.
This whole thing is absolutely revolting. I wonder if Miss Angie considers her born child a roach/squatter/thing/tapeworm/parasite/it? Parents with this mentality towards children should have their children taken away by the state. And seriously consider tubal ligation/vasectomy.
Is she “demystifying it” as she states or is she “desensitizing us” to the fact that abortion takes a life? This is an incredibly sad and destructive rationale.
So, we should kill other people based on transient, irrational feelings? Yeah, sure.
Hey, army wife, please tell me where I said that. That request is not a rhetorical device – please quote the sentence that led you to somehow infer that meaning from what I wrote. I am very interested to find out, especially because my post dealt almost entirely with women who do not go on to have abortions.
You were discussing irrational reactions to pregnancy (and childbirth, as in your example) in the context of the discussion here regarding Miss Angie’s strong feelings against her unborn child. It seemed to me that you were OK with women aborting their children even though they might be choosing to do so because of these sorts of strong feelings, whether or not they realize that these feelings are normal, transient, and not necessarily rational. If this was not your intended idea, then please forgive me for mis-reading you.
I do agree that sometimes women can have mixed feelings about being pregnant, even if they wanted/tried to become pregnant in the first place. When you’ve just found out you’re pregnant, and are still sorting out all kinds of strong feelings in your mind like this, this is not the time for making a life-and-death decision for the child (although I don’t believe it’s a mother’s right to ever decide to take the life of her child). My point is that some women have these feelings and assume that they are her rational, true feelings on the matter – they don’t realize that this is just a knee-jerk, temporary reaction to a really big occurrence in their lives.
You were discussing irrational reactions to pregnancy (and childbirth, as in your example) in the context of the discussion here regarding Miss Angie’s strong feelings against her unborn child
I was discussing irrational reactions to pregnancy and the wisdom of using them to jump to conclusions about them woman having the reaction. If such reactions are normal in non-aborting women, why are they abnormal in aborting women? Christina used this woman’s reaction – which the woman herself admitted was irrational and purely gut-level emotional – to imply that women who feel this way shouldn’t be sleeping with the men they’re with. I responded to that, because I think that unless you’re prepared to make similar judgments about all other women – aborting or not aborting – who have similarly irrational reactions, then you should probably take a step back and think about what you’re saying.
I was especially surprised to see such a comment from Christina as she was one of the first people I remember seeing make the argument that ambivalence or rejection is normal even in the best of pregnancies, and so such feelings are not an appropriate justification for abortion.
Sydney: “She needs virtual hugs?”
That’s a shame.
Babies can give real hugs.
Alexandra,
That was pretty much my point. Why do women make the “abortion choice” at a time when their thoughts aren’t following a rational track? I think the reason is because they don’t realize that their thoughts are not actually rational, and that it’s normal to feel that way even if their pregnancy was planned.
I agree with her on one point:
A man who is even personally pro-life should never have sex with a woman who is pro-choice. How stupid can you get? That’s like leaving your children with a babysitter who thinks child sacrifice is okay and hey, under the right circumstances, she might practice it.
Except that might not come up in the interview, and it’s pretty reasonable to think that a woman might not be pro-life nowadays, and finding that out before you unzip your pants is a pretty reasonable move.