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US woman videos her abortion on YouTube

Published: March 03, 2010

Screenshot of Angie Jackson from YouTube

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An American woman has sparked a storm by making a YouTube video and live tweeting the details of her abortion, after taking the RU-486 drug while four weeks pregnant.

In the video, Angie Jackson shocked many when she said, "I am having an abortion-right now," according to ABC Action News. In the next three minutes, Jackson, detailed her reaction to the abortion drug.

On YouTube she said, "It's not that bad, it's not that scary, it's basically like a miscarriage. I am live tweeting my abortion on Twitter, not for a publicity stunt or attention or to justify it for myself. I am at peace with my decision".

Jackson said she chose abortion because of life threatening complications in her first pregnancy, and to protect the child she does have, a four-year-old boy with special needs.

Her public video has earned her "numerous death threats", news reports said.

"People have made violent threats toward my son. I want people to know that I am reporting every threat to the FBI," Jackson says.

Monsignor Desmond Daly, of Christ the King Church, who viewed the video the first time with ABC Action News,  questioned her motives.

"The way she presented this whole thing is tawdry in the least. I am angry, not just because I am a pastor or because I am a man, but because I am a human being. I look at her and she is smiling throughout the whole thing and she is kind of flaunting her situation and taunting at the same time eliciting a response from us who believe that abortion is a dreadful thing," Daly said.

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Tampa woman faces death threats after tweeting abortion (ABC Action News)

Angie the Anti-Theist: mother stands by decision to graphically document abortion live on the internet (The Age)

 

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Recent Comments

  1. This will get across the message as to the grim reality of abortion.

  2. Praying Divine Mercy chaplet for her.

  3. Sad that this woman has predicted something she does not know - if her child would be perfectly healthy and now that it's made public is she really at peace with her decision?
    May all unborn children have the greatest life in heaven since they weren't given the chance on earth and may their parents be re-united with them in eternal joy.

  4. Makes me sad, not mad.

  5. This is just an irresponsible individual who doesn’t know what she is doing. Jesus will say; Father forgive her for she know not what she is doing. A child in a mother’s womb is ‘defenseless’ and if a mother can do that, what has become of our world? Must pray for people like her.

  6. This is revolting.

  7. It would be helpful if occasionally at Mass we were invited to pray for those seeking abortions.

  8. The poor lass needs help. She already has a child with special needs This may well be an unconscious cry for help. I will keep her in my prayers and her little boy - so very sad. The little one she aborted is safe with the angels now.

  9. This posting of an extremely personal experience requiring a considered and measured response is truly a conundrum.
    How can any person, let alone a mother carrying an infant of true existence and potential, destroy in the public arena that life in so callous a manner?
    Her contempt of the sanctity of that life is such as the murderous Roman emperors, such as Nero and Caligula that created that holocaust against Christians who did stand truthful and strong for their faith.
    I feel acts such as these will have a positive effect in letting the ordinary people of our nation see the innate evil that is abortion.
    To my mind, there is a growing resentment against the culture of death that is presented daily to us. Australians do not want live with these overbearing responsibilities that are thrust before them and hang over their consciences as would the sword of Damocles.

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