I had an Abortion on Flickr

.Milan says:

this is sick and bizzare ...
Posted 58 months ago. ( permalink )

Civilisator says:

It is a beautiful picture.
Posted 58 months ago. ( permalink )

imnewtryme says:

that is so true
you never know
Posted 58 months ago. ( permalink )

RubyJi says:

Right on!

I had one too, and I wear the t-shirt with no shame.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Alton @flickr says:

I'm reminded of the poem by Anne Sexton.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

So many women would wear the truth if there were no fear of bodily harm from our family, co-workers etc.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

~Oh Mary~ says:

I'd wear it and spray paint the words: And I REGRET It!
because I do.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

Can't change things now.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

plainjane124 [deleted] says:

I really like honest clothing like this.

I saw a woman wearing an HIV POSITIVE shirt and it is so empowering. But GREAT picture.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Kim The Star Princess says:

Why don't we just give murderers shirts that say, "I murdered someone."?
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

Well Kim, you could if you wanted. Try Cafe Press.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

grateful420angelina says:

nice to see some pictures on here that arent waving chopped up babies in our faces, seems to be the only way the radical pro-life side operates.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

jessheartsphotos [deleted] says:

I love it! beautiful picture. I wish we could all be that honest.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Congratulations! This image is currently one of Flickr's most interesting photos for 23 February 2005 (Two years ago today!). (It is on page one of the calendar view.) Would you please add it to the Interestingness pool? It would be a great addition!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Thalianation says:

Brave and wonderful.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

funkmistress says:

This picture is empowering, honest and full of grace. We need more of such visualizing womens free choices! Thumbs high up! regards, NinA
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

stodmyk says:

A sad comment, but when I was still freelancing, "most ripped off" usually meant, "most successful and satisfying work."

Congrats on an amazing image.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

jonniefivemiles says:

Nice shot.

Though I am confused as to the point of proclaiming that you prevented a human life from forming.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Villa Sams says:

This is sad.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

yarbroughcodie says:

babies feel the pain in an abortion.

†codie
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

willem velthoven says:

well yarbroughtcodie, the thing that is abducted with an abortion is not a baby. it is a lump of cells and later a fetus. there is no brain activity in a fetus at lest till the 24th week of pregnancie. that means that there is no pain experiences in almost all abortions.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

bmmckinney says:

See the choice you support: abortionNO.com
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

SerialCoder says:

This image has been added to the Flickr Museum for making explore's top 25. Kudos! You can check it out HERE...

Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Picturing Ethics says:

Regardless of anyone's ethical beliefs about abortion, I find it alarming that the dominant social setting does not allow us to openly discuss this issue. It is especially alarming to think that we have harmed so many women and men by silencing them. In Japan, they have Jizo, a bodhisattva who acknowledges and blesses the unborn. I like Jizo!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

lindseymclarke says:

Great image. Perfect to illustrate a post on londonist.com about this week's anti abortion demonstration in London this weekend. Duly credited and hooked up. Many thanks!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Double_Nickel says:

How sad.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

Thanks for the links to photos of dead fetal tissue youth_pastor. Manipulating people's sensori-emotions is the oldest trick in the book. Here's a photo of a tooth extraction to prove my point.

Gross? Yes. Necessary? Yes.

So it goes ...
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

I believe person-hood occurs at birth.

It's important to understand that Partial Birth Abortion is not a medical term. The description was coined by congressman Charles T. Canady from Florida.

It describes several types of abortions performed at 18 to 24 weeks of pregnancy, as well as procedures involving the dilation of the cervix to remove a deceased fetus.

I don't like second trimester abortions because the medical risks are much higher at a late stage. Several survey-type studies have indicated that there is no single reason why women have abortions in the second trimester. However, I know that whatever the reasons might be, they are none of my business.

It's none of their business either.

Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

A show-down between a married pro-life youth pastor and a single pro-choice secularist?

It sounds tempting, but you seem like a nice guy and all …
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

Rationale ... conjecture ... obdurate. Nice 50 cent words.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

You so Boolean!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

giggle photography says:

i love it! thank you for this photo!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

... catchy
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Debra Edgar says:

Thanks you for putting this in the public eye. I am shocked at how few people realize how COMMON this is for women, and how little social acceptance there is of it, yet awareness is the first step to social support.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Not Perfect Just Forgiven says:

Ahhh I found you youth pastor you seemed to have run away from an actual discussion on another board. So I post again. Youth pastor in resonse to your comments.
1. A baby in the mother's womb is still utilizing oxygen via the umbilical cord. What about the oxygen a baby receives outside the womb is different than the oxygen he receives inside? The answer is 'there is none.'

2. Before the "breath of life" was breathed into the nostrils of Adam (if you take this literally, since the God the Bible doesn't breathe air), Adam would have been nothing more than a lump of dirt (as you pointed out). Dirt is not living. No living cells. No growth. No DNA. There's an insurmountable difference between the yet-to-be-living Adam and an unborn baby.

3. You said, "Until these children are born and breath they are not alive. They live because their mother lives." Do you see where you contradict your first sentence in the very next sentence? First sentence: "they are not alive." Second sentence, "They live..."

I say:
1 In short the ability to breath oxygen and utilize it effectavly is the difference. The child did not breath the oxygen in the mother did. Cancer cells multiple and use the oxygen in the blood stream of the host. Using your logic this means that cancer which is made of mutated human DNA is alive and should be protected. Or is not all dividing cells made of human DNA human life?

2 You seem to be saying because Adam was made from dirt, which God has the ability to make live, he is not the same as a potential baby. See that logic means that if God wanted a person to live he has to make them from what you call living cells AND you are limiting the power of the Almighty God. You also seem to be saying Adam the foundation of all mankind really wasn't valuable while God was creating him because he was just an idea and not made of living cells ( and these cells ability to divid does not make them alive ). Either way a lump of cells that is not breathing is not a living baby just as non breathing dirt is not a living man.

3 I can understand your confusion in my wording and hopefully I can clarify it here. I believe if a parent is expecting a child they have every right to believe that it is living inside of them and is a seperate entity. However, as a profesional I know that this child is not living independantly of it's mother and therefore can not live on it's own. I use the word Alive to describe a person who is independant of devices or people keeping it alive. A brain dead pt. with no independant functioning is not Alive.

??? Do you support medically necesary Dialation and Curettage (D&C) or Dilation and evacuation (D&E)? Do you fault mothers who abort their children? Do you fault all abortionists?
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Not Perfect Just Forgiven says:

Some thing to think about when viewing the abortion videos provided by posters such as youth pastor. Those fetuses are greater than 8 weeks and some greater than 12 weeks. So TheeErin was right shock and gross is what drives the emotional train that youth pastor rides on.

In 2004, for women from areas where weeks of gestation at the time of abortion were adequately reported (44 reporting areas), 61% of reported legal induced abortions were known to have been obtained at <8 weeks' gestation and 87% at <12 weeks (Table 6). Overall (41 reporting areas), 28% of abortions were known to have been performed at 21 weeks.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

TheeErin says:

Whoa! "Even to save the life of the mother, the D&C method seems awfully hanis."

Youth Pastor - I hope your wife knows this about you.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ddjeterfan says:

That's just plain SICK!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lizzelizzel says:

very simple and still moving
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

tofu611 says:

Very simple? Yeah, it is that. Moving? Hardly.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

yvonner76 says:

Too bad your mommas did'nt abort you...
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

❤technicolor☮ says:

every woman has the right to have a choice...they just should really think it over b4 acting on it
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

TJphotos says:

Absolutely brilliant, theft should should be legal too. I mean poor people are always going to steal. Speeding should be legal, some people are really late. Sex at any age should be legal, people that have to get their rocks off going to do it anyway, like that 53 year old guy with his 8 year old nice.

If it comes down to the health of a woman, try to save both of them, especially the child! I've asked my wife this very question & she would give her life in a heartbeat for her unborn child, even if she was poor, living homeless, on drugs, or in a mansion.

Jesus said: Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends

If a baby was born pre-mature and the mother & baby were driving down the road with the mothers boyfriend driving. should the baby be put in the front seat (and mom ride in the back) where it's more dangerous because it wasn't supposed to be born yet anyway?
No, you would think that was sick because you can see that baby as a tangible life!

PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO STOP THINKING ABOUT THEMSELVES IF YOU WANT TO HAVE REAL HOPE!!!!! Not some political slogan.

PLEASE search the internet for abortion photos! Please!
...but don't let your kids see them, because you wouldn't want them to know what the adults in this world have been up to.

Ok, so who's going to care for these unplanned babies? (planned by God, but not by you.)

I know in my church we have COUNTLESS adoptive parents with babies from around the world, we STRONGLY support our local Pregnancy Resource Center, as well as our City Mission.

As far as prevention, We have the "Silver Ring Thing", Youth Ministries & resources to support teens in every way possible.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to do the research yourself to make a determination in your heart if this is life or not. Don't listen only to your church, your friends, your co-workers or your government leaders. YOU figure it out. YOU do the research. YOU search your heart.

As far as I'm concerned. IT IS LIFE! (no matter what, it's not the baby's fault or problem) it's only nine months away. Let's get together & help this new mom out, You & I can do it!

You in?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Squeaky Kat says:

What an inspiring photograph. Rock on and stay beautiful!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

dreamlikeperfection says:

Abortion is a necessary evil but I dont know why people like you want it to be thought of so nonchalantly it is a horrid thing, it is hell on the womans body and it destroys something that otherwise is very precious. I am pro choice but abortion is not a trip to the nail shop. Women are having more and more multiple abortions because of this mentality its just a clump of cells. Abortion should not be encouraged. Abortion should not be flaunted. I would never flaunt the fact that I denied somebody their chance at life regardless what my reason was.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Cherry BoomBoom says:

Every body has their own views and opinions thus we all make different choices in life as we are the only ones who know what we want... weather its abortion or having a baby.
Whoever claims abortion to be murder and have cruel views and comments towards those who have had abortions are so narrow minded and inconsiderate, some poeple may have had it due to reasons such as rape and there is you saying "Too bad your mommas didn't abort you..." who are you to judge other people's choices? If you think it is wrong don't do it ... simple as, you have no right to interfere in other people's choices. Everybody has their own right to do what they want with their body for their own reasons, so just worry about your own!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Double_Nickel says:

Red Cherry, Does the mother have a penis? If not then it's not her body. Rape, I always heard two wrongs don't make it right.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

radio-diablo says:

Sad this kind of primitive discussion still happens in our world. Abortion is a right that must be granted by the law and by the social security sistem. And if a woman wants to have an abortion, it must be her legal right to do so. Any moral discussion on this subject is stupid and empty. This an ethical issue, not a moral one. And if this prolife supporters don't know the difference, go back to university or go read a good ethics book! Stop thinking like if you were living in the middle ages!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

megan.gregoire says:

Who is claimed as the youth pastor on here? I know like to know what he said that "Not perfect but Forgivien" commented to. Just reading some of everyones views on here and I wanted the whole converstation with them
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

bryan.henning says:

I think that ALL girls that have had abortions should be FORCED to wear this empowering(sarcasm) dress, that say "I had an abortion" That way all of the decent men and women would know who all of the dirty little sluts are, and we can keep our privates far far away from these whores.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

imademychoice says:

empowering?? hardly the word i would use. wow i didnt know killing children was empowering.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

oescobar says:

I Killed my Daughter
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

madcrow says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Explored <100, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

Thursday'sChild says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Femmes je vous aime, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

mar_nyc says:

This dress is not about a scientific sounding medical procedure called "abortion" or the truth. To be true you should have said, "I murdered my unborn child'. You want truth, there's your truth.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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