Blogger Angie the Anti-Theist started live tweeting her medical abortion last week, in what she explained was "not for some publicity stunt or attention or to justify this to myself. I am at peace with my decision. I'm doing this to demystify abortion....I want people to know that it's out there." Angie Jackson gives the full video introduction here:
As Salon said, "women should thank her." "Considering that abortion is so prone to politicized distortions and outright lies, Jackson is doing women a real favor."
RU-486 causes a medical, rather than a surgical abortion by blocking progesterone. In an interview on The Mark News, Angie explained why she chose to make her abortion public, describing this as an extension of her blogging, which already makes her private life public. She sees it as an added bonus that the public is educated about "the need for women to have rights to their bodies and the right to make their own medical decisions" and her followers and commenters have been celebratory and supportive.
The Frisky has a demystifying Q&A with Jackson that answers any of the remaining questions that readers may have, and further articulates her motivation to publicize her abortion: "There’s a lot of misinformation and lies [about abortion]. They do attempt to terrify women. They try to make abortion sound so scary that women are too terrified to do it. And that’s really what I wanted to say, from my personal experience, this was not as bad as labor and birth."
You can read Jackson's twitter feed here, where she says very clearly that it's not that bad--but she gives an honest day by day account of a medical abortion, and the accompanying pain (and Vicodin). The Lady Finger is grateful to Jackson for giving women, and all others, the opportunity to learn more about her experience. -TLF
Friday, February 26, 2010
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