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Florida woman Angie Jackson has caused a storm by making a YouTube video and live tweeting the details of her abortion.
Angie Jackson was four weeks pregnant when she made a YouTube video, ABC Action News reports. In it, she shocked many when she said, “I am having an abortion-right now.”
In the next three minutes, Jackson, detailed her reaction to mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill.
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.
Because of the intense emotion and debate, Jackson, a blogger and outspoken antitheist, a person who does not believe in faith, has gone from being very public to requesting privacy.
She said she chose abortion because of life threatening complications in her first pregnancy, and to protect the child she does have, a 4-year-old boy with special needs.
But that choice, she fears, has put him in danger.
“I have received numerous death threats. People have made violent threats toward my son. I want people to know that I am reporting every threat to the FBI,” Jackson says.
But, Monsignor Desmond Daly of Christ the King Church, who viewed the video the first time with ABC Action News, does question 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.
Jackson responded, “I am angry at religion. I am angry at religious institutions, but those have nothing to do with my decision to have an abortion.”
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Tampa woman faces death threats after tweeting abortion (ABC Action News)
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