Angie Jackson's Abortion

I've taken the morning after pill.

So, maybe, I killed what wasn't even a zygote? I don't know. I don't care, but there it is. I said it.

A woman named Angie Jackson, a Floridian, is presently catching some significant heat for Tweeting, in real time, the effects of taking RU-486.

The article from which I learned about this was titled "Angie Jackson Live-Tweets Her Abortion on Twitter". I'll let the title's grammar issue speak for itself.

Apparently Miss Angie Jackson is 27 years-old and has a four year-old special needs son. She regularly tweets about her life to her 800-some followers. The followers are there for empathy, for help, and she admits that they give her some strength and companionship. Given the fact that she gave birth to him at 23 years-old, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that she didn't have time to establish and incredibly gainful career and that it is probably emotionally, mentally, and financially taxing to raise a child with special needs. So really, who wants to deal with more of that?

Insert here the radical right screaming about her killing a child. Screaming about how she's a fool and, oh mercy, how could she truly love the child she has if she can kill one that she doesn't yet have?

Bollocks. All of it. Please, you religious fucking nut jobs weren't paying any attention because here's where the kicker lies: she has an IUD.

If you've ever seen a commercial for an IUD, like that one that's running interminably on WE (where I get all of my fine wedding related programing), pregnancy while having an IUD interned in one's uterus is pracitcally deadly. So really, really? Who really wants to chance death with a child that one wasn't planning to have?

So, ironically, these religious freaks think that she should potentially die in order to create a life that will probably kill her. Also, she's received a number of death threats.

She's going to "kill" something that isn't human and you wanna kill her? Ugh...I give up.

I will never understand religious people. I should also mention, Miss Jackson is an atheist and grew up in a sexually abusive cult. I think she has her brass on this issue.

Miss Jacksons says that since she started this, roughly one third of the emails and messages she's received have been from crazy asshat haters.

She chose an RU-486 abortion as she caught the pregnancy early enough. It isn't disgusting, she simply describes cramps and the eventual aftermath. I think it's possible that the great upset with this isn't just the abortion, but that the abortion that's occurring isn't a disdainful, horrible, surgical one. It's easy. It's simple. It's done at home.

If Miss Jackson were to have an abortion in a repulsive and frightening manner, the haters on her page may have nothing to say. They may only yell, "see we told you so." As opposed to, "you should die."

Of course abortion isn't ideal. No woman wants to do that, but does want the option in case, like Angie, her life is at risk. Or she was raped. Or she is poor. Or her pregnancy is the product of incest. Miss Jackson's live blogging shows that even if a woman must endure one horror of an unwanted pregnancy, they at least don't have to endure another horror of a surgical abortion.