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."

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every day?

[Anonymous Coward]

She has abortions every day? Wow, someone needs to teach that girl how to close her legs....or swallow.

RU-486

[ichthus]

Ask your doctor if RU-486 is right for you.*

*Side effects may include freaky, hoochy mamma eyelid discoloration.

her abortion?

[frovingslosh]

If she really tweeted her abortion I would be very impressed, but I suspect that she really tweeted her child's abortion.

Re:her abortion?

[tnk1]

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:Murderer

[NotBornYesterday]

Not defending the GP, just pointing out a logical fallacy: "Failing to implant" is more analogous to "spontaneously dying from a brain hemorrhage" than murder. Murder involves intent and action, as does abortion. Failing to implant does not.

Re: That ignorant insensitive bitch....

[clone53421]

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:Murderer

[zippthorne]

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.