Live Abortion on Social Media

Ours is the age of live executions of human beings broadcast with smiles from the Internet rooftops.

NASHVILLE, TN (Catholic Online) - "I´m having an abortion. Right now," Angie Jackson said with a broad smile on her YouTube video two weeks ago. "It´s not that bad. It´s not that scary. I´m live tweeting my abortion. It´s not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was. You too can have an abortion if you want one."

"Empowered" to Kill

Jackson broadcast her abortion online and live from Florida. She discovered her pregnancy within four weeks, in time to take the "French abortion pill," RU486. An artificial steroid, RU486 interferes with the hormone progesterone, needed to maintain pregnancy.

Progesterone stimulates the growth of the uterine lining which nourishes the developing child, and decreases the frequency of uterine contractions which might dislodge the implanted ovum. It is, therefore, crucial to fetal development.

Once RU486 blocks the life-sustaining hormone, the uterine lining begins to shed, the cervix softens, and bleeding occurs. A second pill stimulates uterine contraction and the pregnancy is expelled. Private. Relatively painless. Cheap. "Some women feel empowered by taking an active role in the process," says the Feminist Women's Health Center.

After self-administering the abortion pill, Jackson, a newly "empowered," self-proclaimed atheist, began videoing herself giving a statement about her motives for posting the shocking video and explicit Twittter updates that referred to the helpless one nestled within her body as a "squatter," a "tumor" and a "parasite." "I want to KILL THIS THING!" she exploded at one point.

Demystifying the Massacre

Citing peace with her abortion and "no shame," Jackson defended it for herself and other women on the grounds that it was "not a baby"; that she was not child killer since she already had a son whom she loved; health risks (her first child was born with special needs after sexual abuse in her "fundamentalist Christian cult" family left her at risk for complications); and her desire to "demystify" abortion for other women.

The 27-year-old single mother with live-in boyfriend has 2686 followers on Twitter where she calls herself "the Gwen Stefani of atheism," and more than 128,000 people have watched her abortion video to date. In the 2 minute 36 second video, she says "it´s not that bad" four times, smiling smugly all the while.

But over the next few days, Jackson´s Twitter updates illustrated the normal affects of the second abortion medication: increasingly profuse bleeding, vomiting, dizziness, and severe pain. Jackson tweeted that she had quickly exhausted her first supply of painkillers.

At least 12 women have died after taking the abortion pill, and hundreds of other adverse effects, including infection, heart attack, hemorrhages, and surgery to repair damage have also been reported to the FDA. In 5% of cases the pill does not cause abortion at all, and a "suction procedure" is required to complete the process, under the sanitized moniker "aspiration abortion."

No Shame

Jackson is not the only one broadcasting her online abortion, but she is the most recently conspicuous. Though she has received hate mail and death threats against herself and her son, some wonder if the whole episode was a wretched attempt to profit. In a CCN interview she mentioned a book she'd like to see published about her life, making her abortion on Twitter not simply gross exhibitionism, but a seemingly great way to boost future book sales.

Oddly, for one in whom there is "still no shame," she somewhat reversed the happy stance maintained throughout her abortion broadcasts, saying in interviews after strong backlash that having an abortion is lonely.

"Emotionally, for me, doing this in the open and having the support of my friends has made this immeasurably easier," she said, claiming that tweeting was the only way for her to get the support she needed and that she has always shared her difficult experiences with her online followers.

Perhaps one should not be surprised, then, that social media is being used even in this disturbing way in an age where people are more desensitized and disconnected from God, from their preborn children, from themselves, and from others. But the inhumanity of a live execution of a human being, a tiny, helpless, vulnerable child, broadcast with smiles from the Internet rooftops...well, surely nothing has the power to shock you to action if this doesn´t.

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Sonja Corbitt is a Catholic speaker, Scripture teacher and study author, and a contributing writer for Catholic Online. She is available to speak on the New Feminism, current events and your preferred theme. Visit her at www.pursuingthesummit.com for information and sample videos, or www.pursuingthesummit.blogspot.com.

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