Women who have had abortions are loud and proud or something and posting all sorts of positive comments about their abortion on Twitter. Yesterday, a trending topic on twitter was #ihadanabortion.
Nice. Well, Salon.com thought this was wonderful.
Women are taking to Twitter with a blunt statement of fact: “I had an abortion.” In fact, so many are tweeting about their experience that the hashtag “#ihadanabortion” began trending on the site yesterday. It all started with a tweet from @IAmDrTiller: “Time for us to come out. Who’s had an abortion? Show antis we’re not intimidated by scare tactics.
Scare tactics? I know praying outside clinics and begging women to reconsider killing their child are REEEEEEEAAAAALLLY SCARY! Or maybe they’re talking about the one abortionist Dr. Tiller who was killed by a lone nut in the past twelve years. Mailmen have a greater chance of being eaten by dogs than that.
I guess the pro-aborts have forgotten about the thousands of incidents of pro-abortion people forcing women to abort or committing violence against women for refusing to abort. And never mind that about once a month we read about some father killing or attempting to kill a woman because of her refusal to abort. But that’s not pro-choice violence, right?
An example of yesterday’s tweets include:
I’ve had an abortion. It was not an easy decision, but it was the best one for me. #ihadanabortion
Almost half my life ago, #ihadanabortion. I’m not sorry. I’ve never been sorry. I will never be sorry. Just very, very grateful.
Yep, #IHADANABORTION.. more than one, now that I am ready I am now 7 months pregnant w/ my 2nd child…my body, my decision!
Those who are ANTI-choice shd B glad #ihadanabortion. I went on to finish college, support myself, marry … have 2 honor students. Nice, huh?
“Why is saying #ihadanabortion ‘provocative?’ I had my wisdom teeth out. Is that needlessly provocative? Or ‘i had a baby at 15?’No?”
Wisdom teeth, huh? Pro-aborts keep forgetting that they’re supposed to pretend that abortion is a “heart-wrenching decision” like Hillary Clinton says it is. Or a “personal tragedy” as President Obama calls it.
But many get a little tired of pretending to feel some humility so they get a Twitter account and taunt others that they killed their own child and don’t feel bad about it…so there.
SilentNoMore actually knows that abortion is a tragedy as they have accrued hundreds of heartbreaking testimonies from women who have had abortions. The testimonies there just seem a little more human than the 140 characters or less touchdown dance testimonies of #ihadanabortion Tweeters.
November 5, 2010 at 2:44 pm
So sick. But I bet if I went on Twitter and proclaimed that I could have had an abortion but chose life instead, I'd be called callous and mean for taunting those poor women who just didn't have the same choices and support as me and just *had* to have that abortion.
November 5, 2010 at 2:45 pm
The abortion industry is scared and is drumming up popular support in face of a surge among pro-life Reps and Senators. The implication is legal abortion needs to stay as the law of the land because it is as American as Obama. (Oh wait, isn't he a Keynesian?)
November 5, 2010 at 3:16 pm
DO IT lavatea! I already started tweeting with the hashtag. The more incendiary the message, the better. If it makes them mad, it gets retweeted by pro-aborts and sends my pro-life tweet even farther.
November 5, 2010 at 4:37 pm
If you can sum up abortion within 140 characters, there is something sadly wrong with one's moral decision making.
I had a baby in school, graduate school. I'm so happy my husband, my family, and even the school accommodated. Since all were close by, I actually only missed a few classes.
Some of statements were really creepy concerning motherhood, like the woman who bragged her two students were on honor roll. I killed my first baby, so you can do well at school? Where is the reasoning in that? Does this women see her two children as simply trophies or as human beings? Get good grades not because of the value of knowledge or finding truth, but so I can feel good about my decision to have abortion.
November 5, 2010 at 4:39 pm
How do we know that the pro-abortion tweets are genuine? It wouldn't be the first time that the agents of death have tried to flood the "airwaves" with false information and manipulate the media in order to spread their lies and manufacture support for their agenda.
The anonymity of the internet is perfect cover for the abortionists, and we shouldn't be surprised that the pro-death camp is attempting to inflate their "popularity" by posting fake tweets. Given that their agenda is failing, I think we can expect that they will step up their tricks in an attempt to co-opt the new media.
November 5, 2010 at 4:52 pm
From Today's Mass Reading:
"…their end is destruction.
Their God is their stomach;
their glory is in their “shame.”
That last bit on the glory of their shame has haunted me all today, even more when reading this.
November 5, 2010 at 5:13 pm
The best tweet I ever read was: In America, a Koran is safer than an unborn child.
November 5, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Lets trend #IdidNOThaveanabortion by sharing our stories of LIFE
November 5, 2010 at 6:34 pm
This is WONDERFUL – let it out, proclaim your true or false joy of killing your child, PROGRESS to that next phase of dealing with the tragedy.
It's called healing – and hopefully next will come a request for forgiveness from God.
Encourage the converstion – let others see how these individuals think and let them see/share it as well. The truth will come out. There is advantage to sin, immediately, short term, often, and greater, deeper, un-joyful disadvantage overall – let this come out.
Don't respond and give them fodder – let the sin devour itself, the light of openness disinfect.
November 5, 2010 at 7:01 pm
"Mama!Why Did You Kill Us?" is a TAN booklet telling the story of a Catholic woman who was haunted by the souls of the 7 infants she had aborted.And it is also is a story of her contrition and atonement and of the mercy of God shown to her afterwards.
November 5, 2010 at 7:51 pm
If you can sum up abortion within 140 characters, there is something sadly wrong with one's moral decision making
Abortion = Murder.
Not that hard.
November 5, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Silent No More women should pick up this trend and tweet it as
" '#ihad an abortion' and I regret it ". or "
'#ihadanabortion' and I think everyday,'What if I didn't?'" or
"They told me it was a clump of cells, so '#ihadanabortion'. They lied and my baby died."
If they can't use the same tag, they should try to get it as close as possible so it comes up in the search…
November 6, 2010 at 4:04 am
I think that for a lot of women the "pride" they take in having an abortion is just a mask to hide the pain. They don't even want to admit the tragedy to themselves.
We should use this as an opportunity to pray for them.
November 6, 2010 at 7:11 am
By their metrics, I never should have had Kit.
Neither Elf nor I were on steady employment, I didn't find out I was preggers until at least month four, we were living in a two room apartment (not two bedroom, two ROOM) and I found out the day after using a flame thrower on weeds for ten hours. (God, I love my family.) Oh, and we'd just depleted our savings to send Elf to the funeral of the grandfather that half raised him.
Thank God that I know enough basic biology not to believe the BS that abortion is "birth control."
November 6, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I think it should be #ichoselife
November 6, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Matt, thx for publicizing this. I tweeted for Silent No More on #Ihadanabortion only my tweet was not PC! Here it is: http://www.zealforyourhouseconsumesme.com/2010/10/if-you-dont-like-abortiondont-have-one.html
November 6, 2010 at 8:48 pm
"Mama! Why Did You Kill Us?" is a TAN booklet telling the story of a Catholic woman who was haunted by the souls of the 7 infants she had aborted. And it is also is a story of her contrition and atonement and of the mercy of God shown to her afterwards."
That booklet, by the way, was written back in the 1950s or early 60s. My mom happened to have an old copy of it (don't know where she got it, but she had a lot of TAN books at one time). I read it in the 1970s when I was about, oh, 11 or 12 years old and it scared the crap out of me…. it would actually make a pretty good ghost story.
I don't remember exactly but I THINK the woman in the story was from Italy or some other European country, and her abortions took place in the 1930s or '40s.
In any event it was written LONG before Roe v. Wade and goes to show that abortion didn't start (and probably won't end) with Roe either. There will always be a need for a pro-life movement.
Elaine
November 6, 2010 at 8:55 pm
"I think that for a lot of women the "pride" they take in having an abortion is just a mask to hide the pain. They don't even want to admit the tragedy to themselves."
Couldn't agree with you more there Tori. Some women spend years trying to convince themselves they did the right thing when deep down they know otherwise.
I also remember research done by the Elliot Institute's David Reardon (very, very knowledgeable guy) indicating that women who have had abortions, if they later become "activists" on either side, are far more likely to join the pro-life side than the pro-abort side.
Elaine
November 9, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I agree with Melody that the SilentNoMore women should use this hash. They could even do something like "ihadanabortion and my story is here" or "ihadanabortion and stories like mine are here." (and link to a SNM story).