Yeah this isn’t about principal, it’s about survival. If you want to stick to your principles, when Hillary gets elected you can move to canada

As a republican who is a Never Trump, I was thinking about voting for Johnson but not any more. Hilary has my vote on lock now.

Well, if you are going to use the anti-choice side’s definitions and phraseology, you’ll have to forgive the rest of us who assume you are anti-choice.

I think that, if you assume the article is being read by someone who is pro-choice, the reader knows that it is not the title that is horrifying. They may know that the story probably will be because there is a good chance that abortion at 32 weeks = wanted pregnancy + medical problem but the title is not horrifying…

I am not sure why the title sounds like the woman had an abortion on a whim to so many people. There is nothing flippant in the title.

What about the headline made you think that, though. It’s pretty much a dispassionate representation of exactly what the story covers. It’s not sensational or controversial or click bait. The headline is an exact descriptor of the article, without any kind of attached emotion or judgement. You are the one that added…

If you aren’t judging, then there should never be a ‘wow’ response to an abortion. What you’re saying in all of these comments, or at least the way it’s coming across to most of the people responding, is that you assumed from the title that the story was going to be about a woman choosing to abort a healthy fetus at…

You are basically asking her to title this “I was legitmately raped.” You want the headline to assure the reader that this was an acceptable abortion, not one of those bad abortions by bad people. Your judgement is one of the problems we are having around abortion.

Oh no, the tone police are out in force! How dare you be so rude to someone who was completely rude and insulting to you!

yes. also, miscarriages are often called natural or spontaneous abortions. imo, we should use the a word as much as possible.

Perhaps you need to educate yourself on abortion - anyone who has at least a decent amount of knowledge about abortion knows that after 20-odd weeks (and, arguably, before) it’s always about a patient’s struggle with a sad, tragic situation.

I am so sorry that you had to see this vicious comment. Thank you for the story it was enlightening and enraging to realize that a woman in New York! had to fly somewhere else to terminate a non viable baby. I wish I could give you a hug this was so clearly a hard experience for you. I too was furious with the…

^^^This^^

You’re ‘apologizing’ for it, yet you keep saying the same inflammatory things with each comment. The headline couldn’t be more purely factual. There are no adjectives in it. There is no sensationalizing. Woman. Had abortion. 32 weeks. That YOU see that at something that’s negative, disrespectful or villainous speaks…

You know nothing about the “typical abortion situation.” Very few people use abortion as basic birth control. Do some fucking research.

I understand your comment. I have attempted in my lifetime to explain to the rabid right to lifers that there are instances and situations where abortion is the only choice. They stick their proverbial fingers in their ears and refuse to listen because they live in a black and white world with no room for the gray…

Did you click on the article thinking it would be about someone aborting a healthy fetus at 32 weeks because they didn't want a baby? And that's why you're so upset? Not everyone made that assumption, I read the headline and assumed the pregnancy wasn't viable, and wondered why it took so long to find that out

ah, well. you’re going to continue to get piled on because most people, having finished this powerful, affecting story, are feeling very raw. Your comment, which is right up at the top, appears small-minded and cruel. I know that’s not what you meant but it’s just how it comes across to many people. In your shoes, I’d…

The headline is bare-bones-absolutely-factual. You chose to read into it and you chose to jump all over Jia.

She had an abortion for the same reason any woman has an abortion: her own, personal, private reason. Her abortion “reason” is as unhorrifying as anybody’s abortion reason. That’s why you were told to fuck off.