You Choose

I am surprised I have not run into Angie the Anti-Theist on Twitter before. But she is awesome. Angie's backstory is interesting enough, reared as a fundamentalist, now an advocate of atheism. But her latest stand, her decision to talk about her RU-486-aided abortion on YouTube and Twitter and such, is a hell of a thing. I am a fan. Listen to Angie Jackson explain her choice—as if she owes anyone such—and then tell her you'd force her to carry a pregnancy to term. I think both she and her family will be very pleased that she made the decision to end her pregnancy.

This is something we don't hear very often—testimony from the women. To most people on either side of this issue, the women are faceless; it's just a bunch of slogans and protest signs. Well. Here's a face. And she chose to lose a zygote rather than to risk not being there for the kid she's already got. It was the right choice. More important, though: It was her choice. And that is the way things need to stay. Thanks, Angie.