14 DAY TRIAL // Angie Jackson is 27 years old and the mother of a four-year-old boy with special needs. Because the first time she got pregnant she had life-threatening complications, she decided to take to Twitter and YouTube to tell women that abortion was a viable choice and clearly not something to be afraid of – by having hers live, for the entire world to watch and read, as SMH informs.
The second time Jackson got pregnant was by mistake, so she went to the doctor to see what she could do about it. Because she was early on in the pregnancy, the doctor recommended that she took mifepristone, which is also known as the abortion pill, and rid herself of the baby because it would be too dangerous to even attempt to carry it to term. However, the woman decided to take the pill and then document the reactions she was having to it on the two channels, igniting furious reactions from people all over the world.
“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. I am doing this to demystify abortion so other women know that it is not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking. It is not that bad. This is nothing compared to child birth, compared to labor for me. This is the best choice. It is not that bad and I want people to know that it is out there if you need this,” Jackson says in the YouTube video.
Reaction to this has been extreme, as one can easily imagine, from many saying she was a brave woman to even more claiming what she did was extremely cruel, base and pitiful. It’s these people that have also gone even further than calling her a killer, posting death threats in her comments section and saying she should not be allowed to live. Because of this, Jackson has gone from taking her most personal issues online to asking for her privacy, though she continues to respond to critics saying she had a right to make her own choice.
Be that as it may, some things should never be made public, Monsignor Desmond Daly of Christ the King Church tells the media. “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. It was disturbing. It was disturbing on many levels, on how this goes on YouTube and how she uses it in such a manner. She says she does not want publicity, but evidently she does because she is getting it right now,” the priest says.
When asked if she regrets anything about going online with all the details of her abortion, Jackson says she only feels sorry for wearing blue eyeshadow while shooting the YouTube video.