Should there Be a Stigma to Abortion?

I admit that I find stories like this intensely troubling.

One hundred thousand people have watched Angie Jackson’s abortion. Late last month, Jackson posted a video of herself to YouTube, recorded after she took RU-486, a medication used to end pregnancies. “I found out about a week ago, Saturday, that I was pregnant,” the 27-year-old mom from Florida explains in the two-and-a-half minute clip. “For a variety of reasons, including very high health risks for me, I’m having an abortion. Right now.” Jackson also tweeted her experience, detailing the cramps and bleeding she experienced.

Jackson says in the video that she wants to “demystify abortion,” to show it’s “not that bad, not that scary.”

There was a time when everyone seemed to agree that abortion should be rare.  Now we are moving into an era where women are practically bragging about it.  It’s a disgusting moral stance.  For example, take this snippet:

Like one woman who terminated a pregnancy when she learned her baby would have Down syndrome. “I don’t look at it as though I had an abortion, even though that is technically what it is,” she told the New York Times. “There’s a difference. I wanted this baby.”

Bullshit.  She didn’t want that baby.  She killed it.  She wanted a baby that didn’t have Down syndrome.  Perhaps next time she will want a son instead of a daughter.  Will she make the same choice?

Or this:

That same year T shirts with the straightforward declaration “I had an abortion” made frequent appearances at pro-choice walks and rallies after Planned Parenthood sold them through its Web site. “People are upset to be confronted by a real person who has had an abortion as opposed to thinking about it as an abstract issue,”

I don’t know anyone who opposes abortion who thinks of it as an abstract issue.  In fact, when I was pro-choice (yes, there was a time), it was an abstract issue for me.  Now it’s anything but abstract.  Frankly, those who brag and celebrate the fact that they had an abortion are repulsive to me.