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The Shameless Abortion Carnival
· Wednesday, March 10, 2010
If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail abortion live, as it happened, on Twitter. The liberal media found this made-for-TV slaughter fascinating, and not at all a controversy worthy of discussing with two sides.
Newsweek's Sarah Kliff proclaimed: "One hundred thousand people have watched Angie Jackson's abortion. Late last month, Jackson posted a video of herself to YouTube, recorded after she took RU-486, a medication used to end pregnancies." Kliff asked only "why shame remains" about the act of killing one's baby. Jackson was honored for her courage in "demystifying" and "destigmatizing" the procedure: "We need 10,000 more of her," proclaimed Peg Johnston, chair of something called the Abortion Care Network. This desire for 10,000 more unashamed abortions is what "pro-choice" is all about.
Overall, this was just another classic tale from the "news" magazine that lamented 20 years ago that "Sadly, many home (abortion) remedies could damage a fetus instead of kill it." What about the pro-life side?
Newsweek devoted just one sentence to Silent No More, a website where women tell a different abortion story and now speak publicly of their shame and regret. But women are increasingly coming forward everywhere, just like the original "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey, publicly admitting the horror of their actions, genuinely penitent -- and genuinely forgiven. But their stories aren't deemed "newsworthy."
CNN interviewed Angie Jackson on the morning of March 8, and they were explicit in rejecting any notion that Jackson deserved a rebuttal. Anchor Kyra Phillips declared after the interview that "as you can imagine, we received a lot of response about even doing this story because abortion is such a controversial issue, and we really didn't want to get into a debate about abortion, but rather, look at what people are doing now, using social networking."
That's a unique concept: Abortion is so controversial that we feel it's best to only let one side talk -- the side that's taking a child's life on camera.
CNN claims these days that they are the sober and neutral center between MSNBC and Fox News, but there was nothing neutral about their sympathy for Jackson. Phillips rushed to proclaim that the most savage part of Jackson's abortion was the pro-lifer comments.
"These are really harsh," the anchor warned. "But people wrote in and said -- they called you all kinds of names, from being a whore to someone who just couldn't keep her legs closed. They called you a baby killer. I mean, it's even hard for me to say these things because some of those -- the e-mails and the responses were so brutal."
As brutal as an abortion? Worse than that, Phillips never acknowledged that pro-lifers most certainly filled Twitter (and the heavens) with their hopes and prayers for her. CNN cannot deny those e-mails were there.
CNN also showed some of Jackson's horrific YouTube video, where she admitted that her baby had the "potential" for life, "but it (it!) was more likely to kill me, and you're not going to shame me. ... I do not feel sorry that I saved my life. I do not feel sorry that I stayed here for myself, for my boyfriend, for my kid that I've already got."
CNN didn't define that sentiment -- or lack of it -- as "really harsh." CNN never told their viewers that Jackson's nom de plume on Twitter is "Anti-Theist Angie." Nor did CNN consider the "brutal" contents of Jackson's Twitter page to be worth commentary. Here are some examples of statements Jackson "retweeted" as worthy comments about Jesus after she popped up on CNN:
"Who would Jesus do? He'd totally do Anti-Theist Angie just to prove a point to those who sully his/her name."
And: "Where would Jesus donate? To science-based education, and better abortion techniques!"
And: "Jesus hates the little women, all the women of the world."
To their credit, when ABC's "World News" hyped this story Feb. 28, they at least allowed conservative Cathy Ruse of the Family Research Council to declare, "Your heart breaks for this woman. And I hope that it doesn't encourage, I hope that what she's doing won't encourage others to take this path." ABC's online story also allowed a few paragraphs of pro-life argument.
ABC weekend anchor Dan Harris noted Jackson was an "outspoken atheist," and quoted her saying, "I hope everybody on YouTube has a great and godless day. Peace."
Jackson said she was four weeks pregnant when she aborted her child. The technology now exists to see just about every human feature -- eyes, hands, feet, even the human nipple -- on a "fetus" 1 inch in size, and only two weeks older. Peace.
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Thom
There is so much sickness in society, not only here but around the world ... every child that is aborted alters everything in the world ... that death affects everyone in some way ... that dead child will never need a teacher, never buy a car, never help another individual, will never buy groceries, etc.
The U.S. society shows the many and increasing signs of decay ... with out GOD (YHWH) you only have decay. You can observe this around the world.
Posted March 10, 2010 at 1:13:05 AM
Parson mac
Abortion remains "The Greatest Hypocrisy"
Only those who are already born support it. Actually Angie does believe in God... or a god anyway. And it is her. The problem with being your own god though is that you can never rise above yourself and in poor Angie's case (and others who share her world-view), that's not very high indeed.
It's about as low as humanity gets. An outrageous self-centeredness that is as love-less as it is uninformed.
What Mr. Bozell writes of should inspire more than righteous indignation however, it should cause a deep sorrow within all of us that our sinful world so dreadfully misshapes and malforms its own children. The aborted child is not the only tragic loss here. Angie and all who support and engage in abortion abort their humanity as well.
Instinct doesn't allow (in general) the animal species to wreak such self-harm and self-destruction within their own kind. One of the greatest evidences of Divinity is that we weren't pre-programmed with such instincts. We were made in his image and given the choice to choose that which would either bless... or curse us, by choosing or rejecting the Father of us all.
Humanity's plight continues to point us all to God--either his presence or absence--within us.
Posted March 10, 2010 at 10:25:27 AM
Craig
Sadly, like Angie, there are a lot of women that have very little respect for the life they conceive. I know women that had multiple abortions before they even graduated from college. Before they even knew they were pregnant, they were determined to abort.
Sadly, I was the father of one of those children and lost the nerve to fight for my child. I regret it every day. I don't think the mother does.
Angie is a part of the reality about abortion which flys in the face of Obama's claim that "this is a hard choice made between women and their doctors."
Posted March 10, 2010 at 11:35:50 AM
terry goodwin
Abortion is a social issue. It is not a legal one nor is the gay issue. The same for religion. This all came about because someone thought they knew better and forced their ideas on other people.
The Adventists come once a year and want me to join their cult, but are unable to answer my questions.
Im supposed to beleive in a book called the bible?
How about the constitution? How about those in congress and the religious community that want me to beleive in their better ways. I think I will stay with History as a basis for my beleifs. These things can be proven where as the others are only beleifs. It is the only thing that continually repeats itself with the same results.
As for Valerie, language is determined by the person who hears it, and then interprets it intent.
Pollitical correctness seems to be the way for those who wish to change it to their benefit. Some of these words have been here for a long time and now we should change them so we don't offend anyone?
Do you wish people conform to your way of thinking?
Perhaps we should change the country into a social mentalety rather than a republic for which it is?
Just as what is happening in Washington now. We are the land of the free, keep that in mind and those who gave their lives to keep it that way.
Posted March 10, 2010 at 12:30:56 PM
Marcus
Mr. Goodwin, we can't abort old people in this society, even when they are no more "viable" than a 6 week old "fetus". That is called murder. Anytime a person stops the life process at ANY point in that process of another person, all logic dictates that it be called murder. The choice in society is whether to outlaw murder or not. Murder is a binary state, there is no murkiness in understanding what it is. Taking another person's life other than in self defense has been deemed morally wrong by our society, even though most individuals would have little problem killing someone they know. Murder is counterproductive to society and unfair to the person it is committed against. Murder of the defenseless like women and children are considered morally more grotesque but no more illegal than killing a man. We don't kill defenseless old people because they are a nuisance and a burden, you know, the same reason that women abort children so it boggles the mind that we as a society don't fight for the lives of these children(liberals call them fetuses) like we do old people.
I think that if we are going to continue to keep abortion legal, then the only way it can be performed is by the suicides of the father of the "fetus", and the "fetus" carrier. At least this makes it equal to all parties concerned and thusly, more legal. Why should a defenseless child suffer consequences that aren't equalled by the offending parents?
Posted March 10, 2010 at 3:48:14 PM
Brian
Not only is this story a travesty beyond belief, but so are the MSM and public responses. Why is it OK for the left to cram this down my throat, and the throat of my children, but if I were to stand up and say "Enough is enough! Abortion is murder!" then I would be labeled as a right-wing, gun-toting, God-clinging despot who wants nothing more than to control a woman's body. Freedom *has* to work both ways or it doesn't exist. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing all the abortion stories, "I had an abortion and I'm glad" or "Every woman has the right to have an abortion any time she wants". Stop making such a spectacle out of it. I'm starting to realize that our society's obsession with celebritys and sports figures, coupled with the incessant need to make a spectacle out of everything, mirrors the Roman Empire and its fascination with the gladitorial games.
Posted March 10, 2010 at 5:29:11 PM
ILEANA
These individuals who murder innocent babies (and they are babies) are so disgusting that words fail to describe how nauseated I feel reading about it.
Posted March 10, 2010 at 11:42:47 PM
Sandra
Liberals rules to live by:
1) It's OK to kill your babies. You are doing nothing wrong. Your convenience is what is most important. Do not feel bad after all it's not really a person yet.
2) Oppose the death penalty for reasons that it is "Inhumane" It does not matter that some of these criminals have raped/ murdered/ tortured or dismembered their victims whom quite often are children who, just like those babies you are allowed to kill, are unable to defend themselves. We cannot infringe on the criminals right to life as human beings even if they are a threat to society. That would be immoral.
3) Never , Never , Never for any reason should you hunt and kill an animal. They are not able to defend themselves (Just like the babies we don't care if you kill) and this is the utmost in cruelty.
Posted March 12, 2010 at 12:29:34 AM