“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.”
Read more and look at the pictures here.
The Guardian writes, “Thisismyabortion.com shows that the reality of abortion is far from the vile and grotesque images used by the pro-life lobby.” Read more here.
Thanks SD.
Feminist Philosophers 
The author was probably not responsible for the subheadline the Guardian gave. Nevertheless, it hardly seems more correct to say “Thisismyabortion.com shows that the reality of abortion is far from the vile and grotesque images used by the pro-life lobby”, than it would be to say, for example, “The pro-life lobby shows that the reality of abortion is far from the relatively innocuous images used by Thisismyabortion.com”.
All newspapers are sometimes guilty of headlines or subheadlines that mischaracterize or overstate the content of what follows them – perhaps an inevitable side-effect of having a different set of people responsible for writing headlines – but I have the impression that the Guardian falls into this trap more than it ought.
I was recently at a public abortion debate where the pro-life side, before showing graphic images of abortions, said that feminists should be in favour of showing these images. She argued that if feminists argue that women are fully autonomous, mature, and adult human beings, then they shouldn’t shy away from “reality.” There were so many people in line for questions, but I wanted to ask the basic question of whether I have to be willing to watch every thing I support, especially every surgery.
Nice commentary here, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4124148.html, by Jane Gleeson-White:
“Our wombs are not terra nullius. They are not blank tracts for others to write their laws upon. Every womb on this earth is enfolded in a girl or woman with her own unique life and story – and the decisions we make for our wombs must be governed by our lives and our stories alone. Not by the abstractions of ‘God’, ‘State’ or any other lawmaking entity.”
Good question KR. I didn’t want to see my gall bladder when it came out, though the surgeon did ask. They also have video of the surgery but he didn’t offer that nor did I want to see it!