Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion 160
27-year-old Angie Jackson has decided that it isn't inappropriate or in any way distasteful to live-tweet about her experience taking RU-486, also known as the abortion pill. According to Jackson nothing is off-limits on Twitter. "I don't feel like I'm doing anything different from what I do every day," said Jackson. "But now I have people calling me a killer; it's surreal."
Re:Everyday? (Score:1, Insightful)
Her clientele isn't into using condoms.
Not quite an abortion (Score:3, Insightful)
While RU-486 terminates a pregnancy, it only does so during the early weeks, before the embryo becomes implanted in the uterus. At that time of gestation, the spontaneous abortion rate (i.e. miscarriage) is 33% to 50% -- we don't really know the number exactly because that early in a pregnancy many women don't realize they are pregnant.
her abortion? (Score:5, Insightful)
Just imagine... (Score:1, Insightful)
once she starts having kids, and one of her kids looks up his/her mommie's old tweet threads.
"So you're saying I could have had an older brother??"
Re: That ignorant insensitive bitch.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Nor do people have to say "Have a blessed day". Same thing.
What a piece of detritus she is for including that little "gem."
Thank you for proving the point that religious people aren't as peaceful as they claim to be.
God knows she needs it.
If God doesn't exist, how can it know what she needs?
Re:My Live Tweet (Score:3, Insightful)
Perhaps they should have just sat quietly and waiting patiently for white men to decide that it should be changed.
Excellent rhetoric, but invalid logic. Negros (to use another term of the era), had no political power whatsoever, and so needed a suit like Brown to kick-start things. The forced-bussing lawsuit, though, was just a B-A-D idea.
By 1973, though, women were gaining more rights through the legislative process, as were gays before Goodridge in 2004.
When you see something you perceive as unjust, you shouldn't just sit back and wait for it to correct itself. You take action to get it corrected.
This is a republican democracy. You change policy through the legislative process. It's long and messy and imperfect and no one gets everything they want when they want it, if ever, but it's an agreed-upon consensus.
The alternative is the extremely divided country that we live in now.
Re:Murderer (Score:2, Insightful)
Really, you can do way better than that.
Try again; if you think of a real argument, I'll address it with an actual answer.
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Re:her abortion? (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually, you are comparing the two words as though they were both equivalent in terms of being scientific terms for the stages of human gestation. "Child" is not a member of the development sequence that would go something like zygote to embryo to fetus. It is a term that designates a relationship to the mother. In that sense, a child could be considered a child of someone from the day it is conceived to the day it dies.
You could argue the point where the relationship begins from (ie. not real until it is born), but there is nothing in the definition that implies that this must be the case. Therefore, you can't improve on his pedantry with your statement because your assertion is debatable.
It's also wrong, because it's not a fetus at that stage, but that's not as much fun to type.
Re: That ignorant insensitive bitch.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Nor do people have to say "Have a blessed day". Same thing.
Nowhere close. You can bless others by your conduct or you can be an ass. Nothing in the word “blessed” demands that you believe in God.
The opposite of saying “have a blessed day” is saying “here’s hoping life treats you like shit today”.
Similarly, when I say “merry Christmas”, I’m not ordering you to be happy because Jesus was born on this day (he wasn’t, as I’m sure we’re all aware). I’m wishing you to be happy, because the alternative is to be an angry, irritable, insensitive clod, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. You can, of course, feel free to be that as long as you aren’t doing it on my lawn.
Re: That ignorant insensitive bitch.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Her poor son! Someday he's going to ask "Hey mommy what are you famous for?" What's she going to answer? "Well son, I was the first** (that we know of) to have an abortion on youtube!"
**she's not really having an abortion on youtube, she's just taking a pill, and since we can't verify her taking the pill we really don't even know if she's done that.
This is all one big publicity stunt. She has a book coming out and she's trying to be famous.
Re:Murderer (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe, but conception is a fairly instantaneous, well-defined event (nth countable cell division might suffice, too). If you can't define a clear, definable and measurable event, then you're relying on "statistical personhood" which means that wherever you draw the line there is a chance that what you terminate isn't not-a-person. That chance goes up when you're performing the procedure a lot of times, until it's almost certain that you'll have murdered at least one person.
A case where the very life of the mother is in danger though is a grey area. Self-defense principles come into play and complicate things, but it wouldn't mean that you're not talking about a person, only that killing a person in self defense of mortal danger is not a murder.
Re:Murderer (Score:2, Insightful)
What is surreal is that people still feel the need to have children in this day and age. Overpopulation is the world's most serious economic crisis; every other economic problem is simply a symptom of overpopulation. We should be encouraging citizens to sterilize themselves and perform as many abortions as possible so that the human race as a whole may have a higher quality of life.