New ‘This Is My Abortion’ Site Claims to Show That Abortion Isn’t All That Bad
- Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:18am by
Mytheos Holt
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The internet has often been criticized for its capacity to destroy the privacy of those who use it, whether through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Myspace, or any number of other sites that involve airing one’s personal details for all to see. However, we doubt very much that anyone expected a site to be set up just so that someone could inform the world about their experience with abortion.
That is, until now. A woman calling herself “Jane” recently set up a site called Thisismyabortion.com, a spartan affair containing nothing but a few cell phone pictures snapped of the interior of an abortion clinic following the procedure (which apparently “Jane” herself went through). They depict a series of photos of several containers, one of which ends up filled with a small amount of blood near the end. The image is deliberately unimpressive, even anticlimactic. As Jane explains on the site (which we are deliberately not linking to, but which viewers can easily find on their own):
My intention in documenting and sharing my abortion is to demystify the sensationalist images propagated by the religious and political right on this matter. The perverse use of lifeless fetus photographs are a propaganda tool in the prolife/prochoice debate in which women and their bodies are used as pawns to push a cultural, political, and religious agenda in the United States.
At 6 weeks of pregnancy, my abortion looked very different than the images I saw when I entered the clinic that day.
This is my abortion.
Now, “Jane” has been getting media attention – so much so that she recently gave an interview to BusinessInsider.com about why she made the site, and what she hopes to accomplish:
What are the actual costs of having an abortion in a clinic?
JANE: My abortion cost $700.Were there any unexpected fees?
JANE: No, I paid for it at the clinic desk in cash.Did health insurance come into play, or was it not an option?
JANE: I did have health insurance at the time, but it didn’t cover the costs.[...]What power is there in remaining anonymous?
JANE: The power in anonymity is placing my little story in a much larger context and making it relatable to anyone and everyone. I could be from the deep south or live in your neighborhood. I could be a minor or perimenopausal. I could be a high school graduate or a PhD professor. I could be Christian or Muslim. I could be your daughter, your mother, your sister, your boss, your friend. I could be all of these things to this audience. This isn’t about me. This is about all of us. The power is in the collective.
If this is starting to sound nakedly political, then don’t be surprised when you get to this answer:
Why wait until this year to launch the site and publish the photos?
JANE: It was a strategic move on my part. This is an election year and women’s rights are center stage. It‘s important for all of us to remember that women’s rights are human rights. What happens now influences women and men alike. We live in precedent setting times, so let’s progress forward. Everyone must have the right to make an informed decision over their personhood. Our time is now.
Now, hard though this may be, set aside your convictions on the subject of abortion for a moment, because as it turns out, one does not have to have an opinion on abortion to think this previous answer is destructive to the entire discussion about the issue and shows the fundamentally dishonest and exploitative attitude of some people toward the debate itself. Also, be warned that the four photos featured on the site will appear below. They are purposefully not graphic, but you may want to avoid looking if you are easily disturbed.
Firstly, consider how many leaps of faith are required to accept this site’s message. We have no idea who “Jane” is. We don’t know where she got her abortion. We know it supposedly occurred in 2011, though not much beyond that. The cost estimate of $700 is not outlandish for some states, though it‘s also an easy estimate for someone who’s never had an abortion to make. “Jane” gives away virtually no other details, such as what state she’s in, or what insurance provider she has, or really anything to provide that any part of this story corresponds to reality. In other words, this story has about as much factual weight as President Obama’s autobiography – probably based on truth, but we can’t prove that it is.
This is a problem for “Jane” and her message, because in order for her point to be made (that abortions really aren’t that graphic or disgusting), we have to accept that the photos on her website are genuine, which requires us to accept that the “abortion” in question actually happened. This requires something very simple from “Jane’s” readers – IE, trust.
And what is least likely to inspire trust on the part of one’s readers? Why, a partisan political motive, obviously, which Jane admits to having in the interview above. The only way “Jane’s” website and message could possibly have been effective would be if someone thought she was an absolutely trustworthy, impartial observer who got caught in the crossfire and was preserving her anonymity for the sake of safety, but wanted to tell the truth just so the debate could proceed honestly. Otherwise, one could easily claim the story is a fabrication, or that even if she did have an abortion, “Jane” could be deliberately withholding photos to make the act look less graphic. The only defense against this would be to claim no motive for distorting the truth.
Instead, “Jane” has outright admitted she deliberately released this information during an election year even though it didn’t happen during that year for the purposes of swaying peoples’ opinions. Even Goebbels never out and out admitted he was spewing propaganda at people. Why? Because knowing that propaganda was designed to make people believe something, rather than to present impartial information, would have made it less effective.
This brings us to the point we made at the beginning of this explanation – that no one on either side of the abortion debate should approve of this. The Pro-Life side should obviously be angry that someone is trivializing an act that they believe is tantamount to murder, and find the deliberate release of this information in an election year reprehensible. The Pro-Choice side, meanwhile, should be equally angry that this woman made their entire movement look willing to release self-described propaganda during an election, thus discrediting any actual pro-choice arguments by implication. It doesn’t help that she sounds like the classic Leftist hack, spouting phrases like “The power is in the collective” and claiming she uses anonymity because “I could be your daughter.”
Forget “Jane,“ maybe she should have called herself ”Julia!”
























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Comments (115)
AllLost
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:15amCan’t wait until Obamacare builds a site showing us it is ok to off the elderly, the infirm, the handicap, the people that don’t agree with the government.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:35amNice, thank you young lady for showing us pictures of you snuffing out a human life. Abortion is legal in this country through all 9 months of pregnancy up until the moment of delivery. Those pictures this woman refers to are very real because they were taken from the garbage cans and refrigerators of REAL abortion clinics.
Report Post »AMERICAN FOREVER FOREVER AMERICAN
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 3:50pmThere is only one opportunity in all of time for any one person to be conceived. If those 2 people don’t conceive the child at that exact second it is now a different life. If you abort a child, there is NO other chance in all of time for that particular person to ever be. Think hard before you abort.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 4:01pm@American forever
Report Post »The soul of the child may very well be given to the same women or couple at a later date.We are merely vessels.We may be able to prevent being the vessel.We however can’t prevent being the souls destiny nor even know it.We humans don’t create the soul,We can’t destroy it either.
NHwinter
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 5:00pmobjectivetruth – So you think God grabs the soul and holds onto it till another time. Don’t think so. That tiny soul goes to God and stays with Him. What you suggested is not theologically correct. One soul for one body only.
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:00pmNHWINTER–> What makes you think God has anything to do with it either taking the soul or reissuing it later. Heaven and Hell was created by the Cathlic church in the 10th century (this has been proven) other mind blowing facts. Did God come down and tell you that aborted souls are taken straight to him after the abortion???? You must tell me, we are all waiting to hear.
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:04pmAMERICAN FOREVER–> Did God tell you that a soul has only one chance at life? Then how do you know? Your mouth (hand on the computer) is writing checks you can’t cash. God told me that you are the work of the devil and can not be trusted.
Report Post »AMERICAN FOREVER FOREVER AMERICAN
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 12:24pmHalloween – Did you see the word “God” in my post. Logic tells me what I wrote is correct. Every thing on this earth is different in some way, flowers, rocks, dogs, even twins. You assume that souls are real and that is what makes a person. Life is precious and the only thing we know for a fact is that we do get one chance at it. We may get another (I doubt it completely) but it will not be the same. Stick to what we know for sure.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:49amThese are the images they chose to show? Try REAL photos of baby parts torn from their little bodies. It IS what it IS.. the killing of a baby and liberals can NOT “rebrand” this, as much as they try.
Report Post »KathleenElsie
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 5:10pmIf this was nothing and there was nothing in her uterus then where did the blood come from? I don’t believe this is a real story just a political ad.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:43ammirder is just that MURDER
Report Post »Roberto G. Vasquez
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:23am@ZORO51
Baby Murderers? Yes, but ask yourself who’s babies are “they” murdering? And what is the murderers’ probable political and religious orientation? I know that doesn’t make it right, but thinking about it in that light might be helpful?
Report Post »Baja
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 3:46pm@ROBERTO G. VASQUEZ
“Baby Murderers? Yes, but ask yourself who’s babies are “they” murdering? And what is the murderers’ probable political and religious orientation? I know that doesn’t make it right, but thinking about it in that light might be helpful?”
Really? Murder is murder regardless of race, sex, or religion.
Report Post »I Aint PC
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:35amAsk the aborted babies if abortion is that bad. Oh yeah!, You can’t ask them. They are dead, having been killed for convenience.
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:33amMy girl had one almost 30 years ago and it haunted her ever since(This was before I knew her). She never got over it and she counciled other women for years who also never got over it.
Its murder in a most profound way, people who are not involved and will never have one themselves are its number one advocates and they lie when they claim its about ‘women’s health‘ or ’choice’. Its about groups like NARAL having power and control over women.
They coerce these women into killing their own children, nothing could be more monsterous.
Report Post »1snake1
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 1:17pmThis is what is called ‘confirmation bias’. The vast majority of people who have abortions are not psychologically scared in any sense of the term.
Report Post »ENOUGHISENOUGH
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 2:07pmI have a friend that is in her 60′s and she had one when she was 19 and it has haunted her ever since also.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 5:03pm1snake1 – do you have proof to back up what you are saying? I believe women who have abortions, if they have a conscience, do suffer, maybe in silence, for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:15pmOf course he doesn’t have proof, what he did is called ‘pigeonholing by labeling’, attempting to make it seem as if the experiences of real people don’t count vs his phantom claim that women who have abortions are unconcerned about it.
Hey snake, try talking to them.
You will be shocked.
And don’t lie and say you already have, anyone who has ever met them knows you are lying.
Report Post »abwehragent
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:33amIt is revealing to note that all those who believe in abortion have already been born. A human being is a human being from conception. That fertilized egg will never grow into a banana. Murder is murder, plain and simple. Sooner or later these murderers will be taken to task for the evils they have committed, for the potential Mozarts, Abraham Lincolns, and other great contributors to society they have snuffed out.
Report Post »TWO BITS
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:29am“informed decision over their personhood”
Report Post »That is an audacious statement from someone who uses sexism as a weapon to justify aborting female babies.
Despite the exposure of nearly unanimous minority support for Obama, he was elected by women, who comprise the majority of the electorate. They will likely be the group who unwaveringly support him again in 2012.
objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:43amWrong.I‘m prochoice and didn’t vote for him then.I won’t vote for him this time either.The one trick pony of riding the prochoice train is over with.Intelligent women don’t vote for those worthless losers
Report Post »sonnetswan
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:24amAbortion IS blood sacrifice promoting by the luciferian philosophy.
Report Post »1snake1
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 1:17pmlol. You believe in magic?
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:22amIt seems that abortion where she had hers done is still using the vacuum method,Irony of it in the eighties you could find out if you were pregnant within three days of missing.You would still have to wait to have an abortion performed.It wasn’t due to legal or moral restrictions.It was due to the medical impossibility.The clusters of cells weren’t large enough to perform an abortion.Its one of the reasons that RU 486 came into existence.
Report Post »Point blank I don’;t want the left or the right in my womb or anyone elses for that matter.Its a decision between you your spouse[signicant other]your doctor and your creator,Both the left and the right are free to believe what they want.They simply aren’t free to inflict it on others.This is the way it needs to stay.Please don’t bother trying to change my mind.It will have no effect and will only cause me to resent your efforts at brainwashing.
jman-6
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:45amU r entitled to resent this or not however u r not entitled to decide to kill,terminate, or whatever euphymism u want any of GODS precious creation! U dont have that right!
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:02am@JMAN6
Report Post »Yes actually I do.Its my body and life, not your or anyone elses.I also extend this right in the area of self defense as well.I have the right to have all my body parts in tact.If someone wants to remove them then they will face the consequenses.
When those precious lives of your god are torturers, would be murderers and satans spawn. I reserve the right of lethal defense.
You are the one who has 0 rights to make that decision.I would like to say thank you though.I now see another method of the control freaks in action.
GiveObamaTheBoot2012
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:48amI find it interesting that you claim to have the right to “self defense” over your own body! Yet the unborn child has no right of self defense. Interesting thought, the unborn has no rights according to you because it’s still in your body and YOU decide what YOU do with YOUR body. You say “unplanned and perhaps unwanted child to an already overburdened individual”, how about CLOSING YOUR LEGS OR USING CONDOMS, OR BETTER YET NOT HAVING SEX! Here’s a novel idea, how about having your uterus ripped out so pro choicers like you could never reproduce? That‘s essentially what you’re doing to fetuses, ripping them out of the womb. Rip your own womb out, that’s a choice you can make.
Report Post »CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:29amWho here has been brainwashed? The objectivetruther who feels only her own pain. You are the center of the universe. No one else matters! Again, I will say this a million times, yet no one can answer my question…Why is a man charged with manslaughter or murder if he kills an unborn child during an act of violence or neglect, but a woman can simply fork over the dough and all is good. The baby is only real if the mother wants it? Women carry the children. Thats a fact. If you don’t like it, complain to God if and when you see him. Pray for forgiveness.
Report Post »no_more_harkin
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:14pmObjective: I‘d say you’ve been brainwashed into thinking a living human is yours to destroy. When is that child inside you no longer yours to kill? It’s easy to slide down the slippery slope, as we have in the past, and are now doing, into letting leaders decide who lives and who dies based on a “percieved” life value. When all life is not valued, none is.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 3:55pm@NOBAMMA2012
Report Post »Actually the area of self defense comes into play when one of you bible thumping crazies thinks offing me because I don’t support your lunacy is OK.It also comes into play when one of your gods chosen darlings grows up and turns into a torturer, satans spawn hellion ,thinking they can do anything to someone simply because they believe differently than you.
Oh and by the way last time I checked when a person is involved or married your childish concept of closing ones legs isn’t an option.Its called using birth control that sometimes fails.As hateful as you are to women maybe you might want to change to men.That seems right up your alley anyway.You could have all the violent sex you wish and not have to worry about pregnancy,If you are married it would be good for your wife.It will be the only peace she has probaly ever known.God I feel sorry for her
TO A CERTAIN READER
Why don’t you tell everyone whats really wrong?You failed at Operation silicone sally.Your attempt at criminal hysterectomy failed.Mad yet I can see that you are.Good I only wished I could have been there to watch you blow like reagen in the exorcist.I do expect to see you in court though.Fiduary fraud of decades standing will net you years and years.Best hope they get you.Personally I’d much prefer to be the one to nail you.I’d love to sentence you under our laws.
ReddenBlack
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 6:25pm@OBJECTIVETRUTH
Good to have you here. Lemme know if you need anything.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:21amThese arrogant pro-choice, progressive asses make Josef Mengele look like Mother Teresa. The Democrats and Supreme court proudly take credit for murdering 56+ million Americans the past 40 year. And sadly, conservatives have not done enough to stop the madness.
Report Post »Arkansawyer
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:06amWhat stupid woman.
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:04amwhen I found out that my donation to “Breast Cancer” has a portion being funneled to “Abortion Clinics” ended by donations. My local “Safeway” store is always asking for you to donate your change to some organization and I politely say “No thank you” after witnessing an elderly man tell the cashier, “I donate on Sunday through my Church and I buy groceries from you”.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:02amLol, I beg to disagree.
ThisismyCHILD’Sabortion . com may not be “all that bad” for this woman…
However;
ThisisMYabortion . com would be a completely different experience.
Report Post »liesnomore
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:54amYou just wait…this cavalier attitude towards ending the life of the unborn will extend itself to the other end of life: the elderly. The “Affordable Health Care Act “will have to control costs” somewhere and once they wring it out of pharmaceutical companies and providers it will move to end of life care. Your final patriotic duty will be to be to die for the state!
Report Post »Eagle_Eye_1970
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:26amThis is already built in to ObamaCare. It is called QALY, you should just wiki that and see for yourself that this has already been decided and part of the legislation.
Report Post »ChildofJesus
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:46amOne of the Ten says DO NOT KILL! to say it isn‘t all that bad is false and if you think there’s a middle ground think again. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. there‘s no compromise with God either you’re with Him completely or against Him. No picking or choosing what goes with an agenda.
Report Post »ComingUnglued
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:43amThe left wants the argument to be about women‘s health and a woman’s right to choose.
They leave out the most important question. What’s the choice?
To kill a baby or not to kill a baby.
Our kids don’t know that thats the choice, we have to make sure they know. That’s the ugly truth they want to keep quiet.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:11amAt six weeks it isn’t a baby or even a fetus.It can’t survive outside the womb even with the best medicine available.One thing I have to ask is this.If god were so all nipatent then why add the burden of an unplanned and perhaps unwanted child to an already overburdened individual?
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:44amObjectivetruth, you don’t understand God based on your question, you ask why would God allow this, because God has given you free will to decide to do whatever you want. Now clearly you cut yourself its going to hurt, but its your choice, you shoot someone they are going to die, you sin it creates seperation between yourself and God, God didn’t place that there, your decision/actions did. You then have the free will to accept the free gift of salvation (yes free gift “not of works least anyman should boast”)
Report Post »Just because God is omniscient doesn’t mean he controls your actions.
You sound like maybe you’re a tad calvinistic in your skepticism
objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:51am@Teddrunk
Report Post »I think you left out married and or otherwise commited women in your tirade about sluts there.Lets see they have a regular sex life,she is on birth control and it fails.Do you understand my point yet?How long would your marriage last if suddenly you were made to be celibate on an on going basis?
objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:17am@LAndon
Report Post »Actually it has to do with the fact of taking responsibility.Women on birth control have had it fail,including myself.I just sometimes wonder why everyone brings god into this equation.Yet, they don’t seem to understand , many otherwise responsible people, are faced with choices they don’t want to make, yet have to.It isn’t without pain or anguish.Most of the religious on here lump everyone into the same pot.They are more interested as to whether you oppose or support abortion rather than the reasons behind it.Worse yet they apply a political sticker on it.Support it and you are a lib.Oppose it and you are a conservative.To me this narrow minded and hollow on both accounts.
If and when either side wishes to discuss the reasons behind their philosopy then a rational approach can be had.Until then I think we are just urinating in the wind.
ObjectiveOpinion
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:52amUntil about 10 weeks, the zygote can develop into a teratoma. This means that before that point in time, you cannot be certain it will develop into a human. That’s, I think, a fair notion of determining when the “life” starts. 6 weeks is early enough that you’re justified in saying “She removed a potential tumor”.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 4:23pm@objectiveopinion
Report Post »Thanks you are the only sane person on this thread.Thanks as well for the time factor.I couldn’t off the top of my head remember it.Its been awhile since I had to jog that section of my memory.I’d also like to thenk you for standing up for me.
momrules
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:36amPrabably a propaganda piece put out by Planned Parenthood. They can’t afford to lose their money making crop of gullible girls and women.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:35amShe, so casually ending a life.
Report Post »We so casually ending millions of lives just like this.
Other civilizations who treated life this way.
Don’t see them around any more.
They didn’t survive.
Will we ?
RightUnite
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:34amAwww! I’m sure mommy and daddy are so proud!!!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:32amwell, there IS one bright side
we wont have to deal with HER offspring in the future …………..hopefully she doesnt BREED again
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:06amYes and to bad we can’t find your parents and find out what they bred.Have you listened to yourself?Breeding is the act of manmade almost forced coitus of animals.Subverting the natural instincts of true mating.You consider people as breeding.God you are one mentally repulsive creature.Just to think you probaly believe yourself worthy to judge others.
Report Post »ShadowPlacebo
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:32amThat is ABSOLUTELY disgusting and this woman should be jailed for making light of something so horrible. I’m a loss for words beyond that. I just hope that site is taken down before liberals get the wrong idea and turn abortions into a contest of, “Who has the bigger abortion?”
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:45amFree speech is for everyone; not just the people with which we agree.
Isn’t it better that we know who these people are and what they’re doing?
Report Post »Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
kentuckypatriot
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:54amWell said THX!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:31amAbortion = murder
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:44amYou are right BIO. Abortion is murder and one of the greatest evils ever legitimized by man.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:06amMomRules, amen to that, sister! I’m going to go hug my kids now. :)
Report Post »mama6
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:30amWhy isn’t this murder? If police would find a jar with bloody matter in a murder suspect’s home, this would be enough evidence to convict that person. One of the 10 commandments says “Thou shalt not kill”.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:57amActually you are wrong.A jar of blood would be enough to hold them ,perhaps, till forensics came back.Only if the blood was of the victim in question ,would it hold weight for conviction,Why would someone have a jar of blood you ask?Cat fish lures and for dna evidence of home birth.They are the only two I can think of.Well that make sense and aren’t part of the occult.
Report Post »CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:34amIf her boyfriend had beat her up and she miscarried, THAT would be a crime. Depending on gestation of the baby possibly murder is some states. Women have the right to murder their babies, men have no say.What sense does this make? I was once a victim of this brainwashing – “It’s just a glob of cells”
Report Post »Our civilization no longer cherishes children or the elderly…very sad.
objectivetruth
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 4:15pm@Carhrs
Report Post »The reason the man is charged is that it is criminal.It can be argued[right or wrong]that was his intent.She didn’t make the free will choice.Depending on how badly she was beaten the child could be scared for life.There is a higher probability of this ,than there is one not being able to concieve after an abortion.
Do you or any of the rest of the religious fanatics on here understand that beating your wife girlfriend exc is actually a crime?Where I’m from in years past it was grounds for execution Needs to go back to it to.I think we need all of america back under that standard.
Gonzo
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:29am“The perverse use of lifeless fetus photographs are a propaganda tool in the prolife/prochoice debate”
Report Post »Yes and the photos of bodies stacked like chord wood at Auschwitz are a propaganda tool against socialism, right? You people are evil.
THX-1138
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:28amKilling babies is bad. Deal with it.
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