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Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion
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."
She has abortions every day? Wow, someone needs to teach that girl how to close her legs....or swallow.
Ask your doctor if RU-486 is right for you.*
*Side effects may include freaky, hoochy mamma eyelid discoloration.
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You take RU-486 every day?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Someone hit that?!?!
Any stance on abortion is irrelevant here. This is about tweeting it. She kept tweeting (which is something she does every day) through something controversial, instead of self-censoring, so more power to her!.
As Austin Powers, international man of mystery would say.
I wonder if she also tweets about all the meth she does. Ugh, her scary eyes and terrible skin and hair are proof enough.
What next? ...
Live webcam showing someone switching sex. All sexes are equal, so hey
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.
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If those jackass Women's Libbers had just sat on their hands, the political process would have worked though, a consensus would have been reached, and the Republicans wouldn't have had such an effective wedge issue for 20 years.
Same with Gay Marriage. By forcing the issue via the courts, idiot activists created a rallying cry against "activist judges" and The Gay Agenda, 30 states wouldn't have passed anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
sick
If having an abortion isn't killing anything to any greater degree than pulling out a fingernail, and so the major arguments should be about convenience (is this a convenient time for me - do I have other things to do in my life), then why aren't fetuses with genetic illnesses and deformities aborted by default? After all, they would be inconvenient for the mother.
If she really tweeted her abortion I would be very impressed, but I suspect that she really tweeted her child's abortion.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
When I think of all the emotional, religious and social responses that run through me when I watched that was, LOL!
Buck Russell: "Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam. "
Do you think that "colored folk" (to use a term from that era) shouldn't have used the courts to fight against "separate but equal" and equal rights in general? Perhaps they should have just sat quietly and waiting patiently for white men to decide that it should be changed.
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. And if correcting it generates push back from groups that what to perpetuate the injustice, well those groups would have likely prevented "spontaneous injustice correction" anyway.
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Another worthless person decides that they want their 15 minutes of fame so they pull this with a little extra shock value for the religious crowd.
We've already gone from Balloon Boy to this in about 6 months? What's next?
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??"
She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."
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?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Yes, because things magically workout for the best when you just sit down and shut up. Maybe someone should have told Mrs. Parks that.
I want my 5 mins of my life back.
What is surreal is that she's able to do this in this day and age.
There should be laws against abortion, and those pills should be illegal.
She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."
Exactly. From there it stopped being about "well, it's my life and my choice" to "LOL I TROLL U MORALFAGS."
"Power concedes nothing without demand" - Frederick Douglass
Corollary to Hanlon's razor: Any significantly advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."
What a piece of detritus she is for including that little "gem." Tsk Tsk.
I hope for the sake of her son that she finds some compassion and spiritual enlightenment. God knows she needs it.
We're expected to believe this kind of nonsense? Come on, I'm like her ex-foetus: I wasn't born yesterday.
what lawn?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/0018217/Officials-Sue-Couple-Who-Removed-Their-Lawn
"I hope for the sake of her son that she finds some compassion and spiritual enlightenment. "
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.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
So why not simply say what you mean without attaching religious connotations (and, sorry, blessing implies approval from an authority figure; in such a context, it is meant to be from a deity)?
Not everyone needs spiritual enlightenment so tsk tsk yourself for saying god knows she needs it
Every sperm cell has human DNA. Every skin cell you shed has human DNA. But these cells are not themselves human, and terminating them is not murder.
If an embryo has no neurons, then it cannot think, cannot feel, and has no sense of self (any more than a tissue sample from your gall bladder can think, feel, or have a sense of self).
It is true that the embryo might become a human someday (the same is true of every sperm cell that dies every day). However, that doesn't make it a human today (any more than a sperm cell is a human), and since it doesn't think, feel, or have a sense of self, preventing it from becomming human is not the same thing as murdering someone that already is a human (any more than stopping a sperm cell from making it to an egg is murder).
Abortion, this early, is not murder by any reasonable measure (which yours is not).
those pills should be illegal
Her doctor told her that having another child could kill her. That would leave her present child without a mother.
This medicine terminated the pregnancy before cell differentiation took place (no brain = no feelings = not a person). This was the most humane thing she could have done in the circumstances.
I, for one, am very glad this medicine is available, as it just made sure that one already-living child still has a mother.
What is surreal is that she's able to do this in this day and age.
What is surreal is that people as incompassionate and ignorant as you seem to think you are champions of moral virtue, with no concept of the harm you actually cause, in this day and age.
In fact, everyone, you should do a bit of research in to her.
She is in fact, a mother already, and after extreme amounts of complications in the birth of her first child, she decided to abort this one after talking to her partner.
Seriously, I though SlashDot had people who were intelligent.
Yes, because things magically workout for the best when you just sit down and shut up. Maybe someone should have told Mrs. Parks that.
Actually, I'm pretty sure she did sit down and shut up.
Bullish Machine Tzar
Because "Have a great day" is too atheist.
For most people, it isn't "murder" if the embryo doesn't qualify as a person yet.
A clump of undifferentiated cells does not have a heart or a brain, does not think or feel, and hence does not qualify as a person.
Yes, the cells have human DNA, just like the sperm cells that never make it to an egg (and 'killing' them is not considered murder by anyone). Also, your skin cells have human DNA, and you kill plenty of those every day. Are you murdering humans? Obviously not.
Yes, a human embryo might become a person if left alone, but until it does so it is not a person, and so stopping it from becoming one is not the same thing as killing someone who has already become a person.
This really shouldn't be too hard to understand.
If those jackass Women's Libbers had just sat on their hands, the political process would have worked though, a consensus would have been reached, and the Republicans wouldn't have had such an effective wedge issue for 20 years.
What? What makes you think that would work?
Plausibility FAIL.
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I hope for the sake of her son that she finds some compassion and spiritual enlightenment.
She has. You just disagree.
God knows she needs it.
How do you know that? Is it possible in your worldview for your God to disagree with you?
"ought" != "is"
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He's posting on slashdot ... work it out.
It's called "Your Mouth Can't Get Pregnant"
"I want to live longer, that's why I am getting an abortion." - crazy makeup lady
I feel sorry for that kid.
idiot activists created a rallying cry against "activist judges" and The Gay Agenda, 30 states wouldn't have passed anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments.
...Yeah, and the anti-gay-marriage status quo would have continued in those 30 states, without anyone ever feeling the need to codify their bigotry into constitutional law. Who, exactly, would be helped by that?
Those amendments are the frightened flailings of people who are losing their influence.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
and the anti-gay-marriage status quo would have continued in those 30 states
Somehow women won the vote without a court case, and -- last I checked -- the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is, well, it's an Act not a SCOTUS decision.
Those amendments are the frightened flailings
My point exactly. They wouldn't have become frightened if the legislative process had been followed.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
You didn't have to reply to it, either. Just like slashdot didn't have to be made.
The big bang had to happen though. If only to show that deities are mostly not what you're made to think they are.
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
Sorry man, but telling me to have a merry christmas (Christ's Mass) has a little more meaning than "I wish you to be happy." It sort of feels like shit when people tell you to have a happy religious day that you don't celebrate because of cultural and religious differences. Happy holidays is more than enough. Telling people to enjoy the celebration that YOU are having is disrespectful. Sorry man. People who complain about how there are policies to not be holiday specific when wishing a good day during December (whaah Christmas is what everyone celebrates, im not stoopid) are people who need to get out of their little cultural bubble.
By the way, why celebrate a mass of a man who was born on a completely different day other than the date that all the other sun gods and heros where born on in pagan religions? It doesn't matter to you. Tradition and the norm matters to you clone53421, which is why you hate the experience of mixed culture. Not everyone celebrates Christmas. Telling them to have a merry Christmas makes them feel disrespected in a varying amount depending on the person and how serious they take their own beliefs. So for fucks sake show some tolerance. Get over it.
you hate the experience of mixed culture
Quit assuming things about me. You’re welcome to wish me pleasantries on any day of the year that is meaningful to you.
Telling them to have a merry Christmas makes them feel disrespected in a varying amount depending on the person and how serious they take their own beliefs.
Depending on how shallow and precarious their own beliefs are, you mean. Seriously, being offended when someone wishes you a merry anything... just goes to show that your religion isn’t tolerant of mine, not vice versa.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
is this the RU-486 SX or the RU-486 DX?
when the baby is just born but still not breathing? Doctors usualy spank them to make their lungs work but, following your logic (not sure if twisted) it would not be murder to slam the baby against the floor as long as he didn't breath once? May I ask you how did you came about this conclusion?
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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.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. The word "blessed" is as closely tied to Christianity as "holocaust" is to the Nazis. Sure we can use it in other contexts, "I was blessed with extra chicken on my burrito by the hot server at Chipotle". Or: "The Haitian earthquake was a real holocaust". But both of those sentences cause you to think of the main meaning of the words and the sentences are really awkward.
Sheldon
Sure we can use it in other contexts, "I was blessed with extra chicken on my burrito by the hot server at Chipotle".
Well, of course it’s awkward. You’re using a word that means divine kindness to refer to somebody throwing an extra few chunks of meat in your burrito.
If somebody just spent 8 hours helping you move, or brought you meals while you were laid up and unable to cook for yourself, it would be appropriate and not awkward at all to describe that as a huge blessing.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
And for all these bible thumping moral suckheads? News Flash: There was abortions before they were legal, it just tended to kill a LOT of women! Oh and the rich were able to hop on a plane to France, get an abortion, and do some shopping in Paris before heading hom. Tell me, is that REALLY what you want to go back to? where the poor die by coat hanger while the rich enjoy a little French food before hoping back to the "moral" US of A?
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