Twitter RU-486 Abortion Chronicles to 'Demystify' Procedure Go Sour

Friday March 5, 2010
By Kathleen Gilbert

(LifeSiteNews.com) - A blogger known as Angie the Anti-Theist caused a stir both on the Internet and the mainstream media last month after word spread that she had decided to "live-tweet" her abortion - that is, issue regular updates on the process of her RU-486 medical abortion on the microblogging tool Twitter. But what followed - a raft of complaints about severe pain and days of unexpected bleeding - may have had the opposite of the intended effect...

...But the process of "demystifying" abortion did not go as smoothly as planned: Jackson found she had begun a much longer journey than she had anticipated. While she had apparently been told that bleeding would last "4-8 hours," according to her tweets, her pain lasted at least another week and a half.

Minutes after taking misoprostol pills to eject her dead baby on February 19, Jackson began complaining of nausea and cramps. The next day, Jackson tweeted: "I'm not even surprised I'm having a stalled abortion. Same thing happened w/my labor!" "Just got back from 2nd trip to clinic. Hopefully it works this time! sadly only 3/10 chance it will 2nd time - grr!" the rest