CNN: So, what was it like to live-tweet your abortion?
posted at 6:23 pm on March 8, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Hengler, a new-media publicity stunt hits paydirt. It’s worth watching if, like me, you only glanced at the headlines about this a few weeks ago and had an image of a woman in the stirrups tapping away on her Blackberry while her obstetrician went to work. That’s not how it was. For one thing, she was facing a serious health risk if she’d carried the child to term; it wasn’t a simple matter of ridding herself of an “inconvenience.” For another thing, she did it herself, at home, via RU-486, which takes a while. Presumably most of the tweeting occurred between ingesting the pill and waiting for it to take effect.
The money line: “When a woman does want to discuss it, the reaction is quite strong.” Is it? Or is it more that the reaction is strong when a woman wants to discuss it while it’s happening, on a forum best known for mindless snark and tween obsessions? The YouTube video couldn’t have waited until an hour after it was over? Per her own description, an RU-486 abortion is similar to a miscarriage. Show of hands from everyone who’s experienced a miscarriage: How bummed were you that you weren’t in front of a laptop with TweetDeck open at the time?
The first clip is from CNN, the second is her homemade empowerment memoir.
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I don’t have a link, but I worked in the Human Genetics Laboratory at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita from 1992-1996, and had the nightmarish task of fishing through the tattered results of Tiller’s “work” to retrieve analyzable tissues enough to still wake me up in the night screaming occasionally. Only a fraction of those infants whose remains were sent in for analysis proved to have been severely compromised, and this number, (ALL that were even analyzed, regardless of findings), represented only a minuscule fraction of his grisly tally, which numbered into the tens of thousands over the course of his “career”.
Solly on March 9, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Jimbo3 on March 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM
The vast majority of deformities and birth defects are detected long before that last trimester. There are 10 week sonograms that can detect most of them.
And if the “mother” is seriously ill to the point the birth would be life-threatening, she’s not flying or driving to Kansas at that point.
Tiller simply was one of the few abortionists who would perform the procedure late in the third trimester, bottom line. That’s what made him so vile, that he had no compulsion about ending the life of a perfectly viable baby.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2010 at 4:34 PM
–My recollection is that some serious problems can’t be detected until well into the second trimester. That was in the 90s, but perhaps things have changed since then. (I also thought that no one, including Tiller, did third tri-mester abortions.)
Jimbo3 on March 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Having a miscarriage last year, on my birthday no less, I was devastated.
Tweeting, blogging, emailing, etc was the last thing on my mind.
I lost my child.
Why would any woman want to discuss this with the public?
Why can’t people be private anymore?
I cannot believe this world.
Badger40 on March 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
And how many of these ‘defects’ that resulted in abortions were actually correctly diagnosed?
I’ve known several people that were diagnosed with various defects, Downs being one of them, where the child was born perfectly healthy.
How many have we lost bcs of this?
Badger40 on March 9, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Jimbo3 on March 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM
He was one of the few who would perform third-trimester abortions and he was good enough at it that physicians around the country sent their patients to him.
http://www.slate.com/id/2219531/
Women who may die in childbirth, generally aren’t all that ambulatory, so my conclusion is that at least a portion of these weren’t life threatening.
Even one sickens me. That anyone could do this to a baby, then go to church on Sunday – Tiller was no better than Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacey or any other serial killer nut, except their numbers were puny compared to his.
And I don’t give a damn that what he did was probably legal. It doesn’t absolve him in the least.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Yes. Just bcs something is legal, doesn’t mean you should do it.
Badger40 on March 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Yeah I always thought a doctor who had mostly necessary and useful surgeries = felonious butcher.
Chris_Balsz on March 9, 2010 at 5:54 PM
The reason is exactly what Angie said. She discussed with the public just so women will no longer be made to feel ashamed or bad because they have an abortion. When people learn that mother, sister, or friend has had an abortion, it makes them less likely to want criminalize abortion. When then move on to better topics.
thuja on March 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Only if used PERFECTLY. Nobody uses contraceptives perfectly, hence the increased failure rate.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/14139-iud/
Tubals have failure rates of about 0.1%, although there will be lousy doctors and feminists who will say its higher.
http://www.ccli.org/nfp/contraception/tubal.php
Of course, you and the rest of the liberals will argue that abortion is the only 100% effective form of birth control. But then even some babies get lucky.
Spectreman on March 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Wow a lady who killed her baby and then is going to blog about it? Of all the F’d up publicity stunts. God help the child :(
Humphrey007 on March 9, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Spectreman on March 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM
You’re killing me, brah. The less than 1% failure rate is AFTER “user error” has been taken into account. And it’s not really “user error” it’s just that – very rarely – they can come out without your knowing it. A doctor puts it in, and a doctor removes it. It’s not something you “use” it’s just there. As for calling me a liberal – it’s a bit ridiculous to toss that word around so freely, and your suggestion that I’m pro-abortion is really ludicrous. You’re basing those accusations on… what, exactly? I’m betting it’s not on anything you read on my personal blog, my posts in the Greenroom, or any of my comments on the rest of Hot Air. If you are, please provide a cite to explain it. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else?
Laura on March 9, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I just have to say that if being pregnant would be a risk to my health, I’d make darned sure I didn’t get pregnant.
Bob's Kid on March 9, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Yep. The actual quote is from a 1991 edition of the Kansas City Star, which you must pay to view.
August 26, 1991
Abortions late in pregnancy push public, doctors to moral dilemma
Here’s the choice quote from Tiller’s spokeswoman, Peggy Jarman of the Pro-Choice Action League “About three-fourths of Tiller’s late-term patients, Jarman said, are teen-agers who have denied to themselves or their families that they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it.”
Care to retract your claim?
Vera on March 9, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Exactly. Tiller’s process involved 3 days in a hotel room with absolutely no medical supervision. No doctor in his right mind would send a patient into this situation if she were truely facing a medical emergency. They would induce her at a local hospital or do a c-section and then try to save the baby.
The truth of the matter is that 3/4 of Tiller’s late term patients were teenagers to afraid to tell their parents they were pregnant until it became obvious. A few came to Tiller if their child had a non-life treatening deformity (such as DS or a cleft palate).
He served no purpose other than to kill late term babies for no medical reason.
Vera on March 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM
Such as, internment of the criminally insane.
Chris_Balsz on March 9, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Bill O’Reilly’s producer looked through lots of Tiller’s records before he was killed…..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281861,00.html
He laughed at the law and performed the abortions anyway.
cynccook on March 9, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Damn, your posts were some choice pwnage….
Tim Burton on March 10, 2010 at 2:39 AM
Abortion on demand = genocide.
There arent enough walls to put these people up against.
Viper1 on March 10, 2010 at 6:23 AM
So….the Supreme Court created the right to abort from emanations and penumbras about “privacy”. I’ll bet Justice Thurgood Marshall is “tweeting” in hell that he made all that privacy crap up to get the result he wanted. Do you think he’d have been so hell-bent (pardon the pun) on creating an abortion right if he’d known the disproportionate number of black babies that would be killed by his decision?
olesparkie on March 10, 2010 at 7:52 AM
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