Abortions and social media 2.0

Abortion is a very hot topic in the media today, especially with a presidential election well on its way.  Abortion is a topic that is not like any other of the topics that separate the democratic and republican parties.  The public's opinion on Abortion is generally in the middle of the two parties opinion, republicans are against abortion, and democrats believe it is the women's choice.  Many anti-abortion activists, post blogs, videos and write articles supporting their opinion, and attacking any individual that believes in abortions in anyway.  In February of 2014, Cammie Wollner wrote a blog posts discussing a video that was shared on to her Facebook wall, showing the detail effects of abortion on the unborn child.  She explains how moving, but disturbing the video was to have been so publicly shared onto Facebook, and that it may have been taken to far this time. Wollner continues saying that she has seen multiple pictures and adds to help prevent abortion and to make strides to have it become illegal, but the anit-abortion activist may have gone to far this time.  The video posted wasn't as much informative, more disturbing and horrifying.  The video she calmed was "like watching death slowly creep across the screen.  It was horrible and I found myself frozen for a moment, unable to scroll away." There is a difference between trying to spread awareness on an issue, and taking it to far where the viewer has to look away from the screen.  I understand where the users see the benefit of sharing the videos, to spread awareness and to show the truth of what happens during an abortion, but when you go too far it seems you can turn away your viewers and have the video back fire in the end.  


http://awomansplaceis.blogspot.com/2014/02/social-media-abortion-and-how-far-is.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/free-speech-victory-article-1.1845780