When there is a Twitter hashtag “livetweetingabortion” you know something’s very wrong somewhere. A 27-year old American mum-of-one has come under fire for using social media to chronicle the progress of her abortion. On Twitter and YouTube, Angie Jackson gave gory details as she aborted her three-week-old foetus, due to health reasons.

Even as I typed the first two sentences of this post, it felt surreal. Going on Twitter and writing about your body expelling your foetus seemed nothing short of barbaric. I don’t know what the mum’s intentions are for doing this, what she hopes to achieve but my mind simply boggles.

A few months back, a mum got major flack for tweeting about her son’s accidental death as he fell into the pool. I didn’t see anything odd in that as I felt she was just reaching out to some support in her time of grief. But in this case?

A case of social networking gone awry, methinks.

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