Tweeting Your Abortion

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Tweeting your abortion Apr 12, 2011
Raises some interesting issues, especially in light of recent comments expressed by members who are against publicly announcing that they would burn the Koran. Should 'inciting' others by tweeting you had an abortion be criminalized? Why not just criminalize abortion then?

And what about people who tweet that they've burned a Koran? Seems some of the members here are a tad inconsistent in their logic.

In the documentary "I Had an Abortion," third-wave feminist Jennifer Baumgardner interviewed 20 women, including Gloria Steinem, about their decision to terminate their pregnancies. She also made t-shirts bearing the film's title and, as I wrote about with mixed feelings a few years back, she later started selling "I was raped" tees. Just as always, not all feminists or pro-choicers agree with the concept. "Not sure what the #ihadanabortion hashtag is meant to accomplish," one woman tweeted. "Pro-choice is one thing but this just seems needlessly provocative." In response, someone wrote: "Why is saying #ihadanabortion 'provocative?' I had my wisdom teeth out. Is that needlessly provocative? Or 'i had a baby at 15?'No?"


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