People Atwitter about Twittered Miscarriage
October 3, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Womens Health
Penelope Trunk, a controversial blogger, has raised a firestorm of a debate: she tweeted about her miscarriage during a meeting and she was happy about it. It meant that she didn’t have to wait for an abortion.
Ms Trunk’s tweet about her miscarriage raised a lot of eyebrows and considerable uproar. Surprisingly, much of the uproar was from women who felt that Ms Trunk was not feeling the “right” way after having had a miscarriage. That she should be mourning the loss instead of being happy about it. This despite the fact that she was about to abort the fetus anyway.
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