Tampa Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion

[Benjamin Geiger]

In my "Atheist Web Resources" post, I mentioned "Angie the Anti-Theist". She tweets as @antitheistangie, and for the past few days, she has been doing something remarkable: giving a play-by-play description of her abortion.

The backstory: She was on at least two forms of birth control (IUD and hormonal), but both failed, and she became pregnant. She announced her intention to have an abortion on Twitter and YouTube, and her blog. When she went to Planned Parenthood, they discovered that the embryo was at an early enough stage of development that a 'medical abortion' (chemically-induced miscarriage, as opposed to a 'surgical abortion') was an option. She took it, and has been describing the effects since.

Why would she reveal such a 'private' thing to the world? She answers:

Why on earth would I choose to go through something so personal — and controversial — on Twitter? Have I no shame?

No, I don’t.

I don’t feel ashamed of having an abortion.

I believe in a woman’s right to choose, in general for others and in this case for me. Abortion doesn’t have to be justified and it doesn’t have to fit your neighbor’s or coworker’s opinions of a “good enough reason.”

I think “I don’t want to be pregnant” is one of the best reasons there is for having an abortion (along with “I don’t want to be a parent” and “I’ll probably die”).

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I want to demystify abortion. I want women to know that it’s not as scary as I thought.

ABC News has already picked up the story. I don't watch much TV (mostly due to my lack of a decent antenna), so I can't say whether local news outlets have mentioned it.

[Celestial Teapot]

This is actually very bold. I wouldn't be surprised if Angie were to receive death threats over this.

Isn't that sad? That I wouldn't be surprised by violent retaliation? Not sad for me. Sad that some people can't handle others living free.

[Benjamin Geiger]

This is actually very bold. I wouldn't be surprised if Angie were to receive death threats over this.

No need to be surprised; the article claims she has. Can't you just feel that "Christian love and mercy"?

[Benjamin Geiger]

ABC News has a story on her and the firestorm she's at the center of.

[AmberSunrise]

Ok so her decision to do away with an embryo gives an grown adult person the right to do away with her? As Gandhi said an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I guess they would rather her have the child and resent it and possible mistreat it for ruining her life when she tried several methods to prevent it from coming into the world to begin with. Too many people have kids they dont want, I aplaude her for knowing what she wants or doesnt want and making the decision.