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Angie Jackson has taken micro-blogging to a whole new level.
In an attempt to “demystify” abortion, the 27-year-old shared her experience on Twitter, YouTube and her personal blog.
“I’m doing this so other women know, ‘Hey, it’s not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was.’ It’s just not that bad,” Jackson said on her YouTube video.
Her ordeal began on February 13, when she discovered that her IUD, a contraceptive device placed in the uterus, failed.
Jackson, a mother of a four-year-old son with special needs, decided to terminate the pregnancy.
"I had made a decision when my son was born to try to not get pregnant again, and if that failed I'd planned that I would get an abortion if I needed one," Jackson told ABCNews.com.
Last Thursday, she went to her local Planned Parenthood in Tampa, Fla,. to get RU-486, commonly known as the abortion pill.
She started chronicling the experience on Twitter under the username “antitheistangie.”
"Cramps are getting a bit more persistent," Jackson typed.
A few hours later, her status changed to “Definitely bleeding now."
Jackson’s following has doubled from 800 since she first tweeted the news of her pregnancy, but not everyone is happy with Jackson’s openness.
Not only has she been criticized for being a “whore" who "can't keep her legs closed," but Jackson and her family have received threats as well.
“I’ve just been astonished by the level of hatred and death threats and threats of violence against my son. It’s been a very ugly side of people to see,” she told Web site The Frisky.
The Family Research Council published a blog entry calling Jackson’s decision a “tragedy.”
“Supporting her decision to abort her baby unintentionally does a grave injustice to Angie, her unborn child, her son and even her boyfriend,” wrote FRC director Jeanne Monahan. “Abortion kills one person and wounds at least one additional person.”
Still, Jackson is not letting the critics affect her.
"I'm not trying to ignite a culture war," she told ABCNews.com "I'm just offering one person's personal experience and true story."
Source: NY Daily News
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