Woman posts pics of own abortion online, receives praise

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
7/9/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Author says she wanted to counter the propaganda used by pro-life activists.

An anti-life activist has surreptitiously photographed her own abortion and posted the images online in what she claims is an effort to "demystify" the practice. The woman, who uses the name "Jane Young" on the site, claims the imagery commonly used by pro-life activists, is mere propaganda and that women are being used as pawns in a national debate.

One of the four images posted by Jane Young of her abortion. Young is attempting to display abortion as a sterile, clinical procedure in an effort to 'demystify' it.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - On a single webpage, Young posted four images showing what she says is her abortion at six weeks. The images show two glass containers on a metal apparatus and connected variously between the images with plastic tubes. In the final two images, one jar clearly contains a small, frothy quantity of blood. The second jar remains clear and empty.
Young posted the following on her site and invited comments.

Recently, I had an abortion.

Lining the street in front of the clinic were a dozen or so protesters. They held up large banners with anti-abortion slogans, religious iconography, and images of dead babies.

Just past the bulletproof security doors, the graphic nature of that imagery haunted me in the waiting room. What would my abortion look like? I decided to secretly document my abortion with my cell phone.

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.

Following her post are 33 responses, virtually all supportive. However, one comment stood out. Identified on the comment as "TaraT," she wrote:

Interesting how all of these comments are so positive. I had an abortion too, except mine was not 6 weeks, it was 10 weeks and it devastated me. It wasn't the protesters - there were none there at the time - it was the feeling I got inside of me as I realized this man was vacuuming my baby out of me and putting its parts in a jar. I couldn't go back though. I had already made a choice. Now I want kids and can't have them because I developed a bad infection after the abortion. There's more to it than both sides are willing to see...WAY more.

You probably won't post this comment because it doesn't praise you for what you've done, but it made me feel a little bit better to submit anyway..
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The procedure documented by Jane appears neat and tidy. The child was only six weeks into his or her life before being suctioned out of its first home, in Young's womb. But the youth or size of the abortion victim does not make the procedure any less immoral or gruesome. Life begins at the moment of conception. Nor does the apparent cleanliness of the procedure on this video change a grievous moral wrong. This is an execution.

The images that Young protests are real images taken of real children who were violently robbed of their lives. Such imagery is no more propaganda than attempting to display the apparent sterility of an early abortion. Jane is engaging in the very same behavior that she protests - and then some.

While Young claims to support knowledge and empowerment, she undermines true knowledge and true empowerment. True knowledge, because she apparently remains ignorant of the understanding that the age of a life, or where it resides, does not make that life any less important. And she diminishes empowerment by allowing her child to be sucked from her womb, sacrificing the future of her baby and herself on an altar of secularism. She has killed her child and deprived the human family of his or her potential.

A tragedy is a tragedy, no matter how sterile or clinical it may appear to be. An abortion is the violent taking of innocent human life no matter hoiw it is disguised.

View the Young's webpage here. WARNING: Content may be disturbing to some viewers.

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Keywords: Abortion, human life, morality, pro-life, anti-life, Jane Young, conception

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Judy Claar
10 months ago
Rob, Listen to Lucia. Then, if you have not already, read my post on "Reboot Gates", addressed to you. That too, speaks about Our Lady of Fatima. God has indeed been trying to speak to mankind, but it seems when he speaks, a lot will not listen. So, what are we to do? I agree as I stated, working from the inside out, but, as we are in the Secular world > we are at Church, I think we need to Live our Catholic Love, put away trifles, so that Christ may truly shine through to them. What good has soft kind words done? Hugging? Offering to be of assistance? Giving, of self, time, or money? Prayers, said together, or just by you? Acts of Kindness? Forgiveness? Mercy? MORE THAN > YOU KNOW. And if the outside world saw these being done w/the outside world of Secularism, and , the times Catholics give freely to Church, would not that say something?
Would it not be like Silence Speaking Volumes?
I can hear you now. But we need Evangelization for so many.........I Know. Rome was not built in a day. We need to start, and are, for our Catholic Church as well as the Battle against Secularism. It is duo. That is my Hope. Blessings...
Megev Bullen
10 months ago
Sick for she has both distorted and holistically damaged hereself and this is NOT me being sexist though I am a Filipino (American-born-and-raised) male. People think that birth control and contraception, I meant Catholics and probably the majority of Protestants and some Eastern Orthodox, are acceptable to the Mystical Body of Chirst (Himself!) and His Church because it does not carry the same connotation and actual severity of sin as abortion is being essentially a physical murder. WRONG! There is LOADS of academic literature be it medical, psychological, sociological, and scientific (science is ALWAYS a mathematically probablistic and humanly political field of chance and/or faith and reason, so pick YOUR side of the debate; more sick, yet true, if you get past the "professional" and "academic" tone of those papers and I am a college student of Economics and Political Science) data and documentation on the effects of ALL these controversial LIFE issues which are essentially MORAL HUMAN issues that go to the CORE of HUMAN RIGHTS (read the UN CHARTER in the 1940s for CLARITY and UNDERSTANDING!). Pray, inform, enlighten, endure, and be patient, my friends, my brethren in Christ, in these crazy and dark years of mankind we are in. We are essentially becoming ANIMALS and you do not NEED religion, in the traditional sense of the term, to GET the AWFULNESS and PERVERSITY of abortion, contraception, and other forms of birth control (a.k.a. morning pill), but HONEST faith in YOURSELF as a HUMAN BEING and SOUND reason! AMEN!!!
Lucia
10 months ago
@ Rob: There is much being said in the messages to the children of Fatima from Our Lady about how our sins offend God and cause Our Lord and Our Lady much sorrow. I think to be offended, is to cause grief or hurt. When the guardian angel appeared to the three shepherd children at Fatima, he told them, "Make of everything you can a sacrifice and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication, for the conversion of sinners." Our Lady also pleaded with the children, "Do not offend the Lord our God any more, for He is already too much offended!" She even warned the children that if humanity did not stop offending God, the world would be punished by Russia's errors. Saint Francisco stopped going to school after the last apparition. He prayed to the "hidden Jesus" in the tabernacle. He wanted to only console Our Lord and Our Lady who were full of sorrow. He prayed the rosary repeatedly each day.

I know God wants nothing more than to be with us, but according to Our Lady of Fatima, our sins offend and cause God grief, in turn, pushing us away from Him. We only hurt ourselves in the end and yes, he takes us back like the prodigal son's father and never punishes us. I too want nothing more for humanity to realize this and surrender to God. He has a kingdom ready for us all.
Fatherof4
10 months ago
Apparently, Eve has been replace by Marie Curie. In Genesis, the first woman was called Eve because she was the "mother of all the living". Marie Curie discovered radium and is therefore the mother of the atomic bomb, with its threat of mega-death. Marie Curie better represents todays abortion mentality. Perhaps Curie and Margaret Sanger could have had an agreeable chat together.
Superflower70
10 months ago
@Tabitha,

Everything is about "how". If your father tells you "You are disgusting Tabitha!", it is all about how he says it and this how will determine how you receive it. Also, in what situation this line is said.

Recently I watched Kevjumba channel of youtube, there was an episode where Kevin's father told him " you are disgusting Kevin!" We all had a good laughter because the way he said it and in that particular situation.

It is also good for the church to go against abortions. People will feel more restricted to do it when there is someone who says it is not right. A lot of teen girls sleep around with different partners and opt for abortions. With some kind of restriction, at least some will think the consequences of their actions.
Tabitha
10 months ago
Life at conception or birth? Picture this... two women both 10 wks pregnant. One has an abortion and the other is in a car accident that kills the baby. We mourn the last scenario but why not the first? Nothing is different except the "how".

If a woman has a miscarriage @ 6 wks, she's considered to have lost the 'baby'. But when a woman has an abortion @ 6 weeks, she's considered to have removed the 'fetus'.

Nothing is different with those lives other than the terminology.
Rob
10 months ago
I'm interested in the way we use the term "offensive" as it relates to God. I've always pictured God in my prayers as disappointed...deeply saddened by my sin. And I say that as a parent who feels much the same way when my children have failed. Anger may be the initial reaction, but it always ends in sadness. And most of the time it's sadness at how someone hurts themselves at the end of the day. Given that we are all God's children and he love's us all, I have trouble with thinking that he's angry at one group and sitting back getting ready to wreak havoc. Instead I picture God our Father just weeping wishing his wayward children would come home. Much like the father in the prodigal son who waits patiently for his son to return. And when he see him rushes to meet him, takes him in his arms and celebrates. Much like he did with me when I strayed. I so badly want that for our wayward, fellow Catholics. I don't want them banished, but to come home. I sometimes think we are too busy being the older brother in the parable instead of the father. We are too busy looking for ways to divide, exclude and eliminate instead of forgive, invite and include.
Lucia
10 months ago
@ Chris, yes I am sure not keeping the Sabbath is much more offensive to God than an abortion. My point is, abortion is definitely one of the most offensive sins committed against God today. I would think if you have an abortion you probably were not taking the sabbath day seriously at that point in time anyway nor your Christian faith.
Lucia
10 months ago
@ Chris, I need to nicely correct you on your theology. The Bible IS something to go by, but Catholics don't believe in sola scriptura, "by scripture alone" for all truth. No where in the bible does it say that the Bible alone contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness. It does not even say all Theology is contained within the Bible.

We have Sacred Tradition that complements Sacred Scripture. Sacred Tradition is given to us by the apostles, with the authority of Christ Himself. It is the living and expanding truth of Christ through common teaching, common life and common worship of the church.

Both Sacred Scripture and Tradition are to be accepted and respected. After all, the early Church did not have a Bible compiled until many, many years after Christ's death. So how did the Church even stay in existence and thrive or proclaim the Gospel if there was no Bible? There was not even printing presses available for early Christians to own their own bibles. Sacred Tradition, through apostolic succession was the key.

"So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us." [ 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ]

There are some articles on the web from Catholic Answers for more on this.
Rob
10 months ago
Judy, to transform our society I'm going to recommend something pretty radical. I think we need to a lot less focused on politics and a lot more focused on our brothers and sisters among us. Start with those in our parishes and move out from there. But with our own houses in disarray, how on earth are we going to influence the greater culture, particularly when they only thing the secular culture is trying to do is justify their behavior? Our words fall on deaf ears as they are looking for action. While there are many faithful catholics, there are so much more that aren't. And they are speaking louder than those who are, obviously. Our own people need to be evangelized, not yelled at, kicked out or ejected from the church. They need to be loved so the spirit can do what the Spirit does. But this is not going to happen with a political race etc, but one soul at a time and we need to start with the folks in front of us. All the screaming and yelling at folks on the "other side" is getting us no where but deeper in a ditch.

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