The foray of unbridled “excitement” seen on social media yesterday over #TwoWomenTravel was unmatched by any Euro 2016 match, Olympic final or even the general election.
Messages of joy, happiness, support and alleged love were swoon from status to tweet, but why and what were these people celebrating?
Why was the one-hit-wonder Graham Linehan seemingly delighted? The adopted American James Corden blowing kisses, and yesteryear’s shining star Grainne Seoige adding her tuppence worth?
Not just me, but many people’s questions as to whether two women actually did travel to the UK to have an abortion or whether it was just a publicity stunt were answered to no avail.
If these two women were so proud of their achievement, one begs the question seeing as they had the attention of social media – why didn’t they show their faces?
If the event was to be celebrated and lauded, surely the two heroes involved deserved their adulation? Could you imagine the twitter users with handles such as “sparkplug”, ” fridge_man” and “imagoner” would have liked and retweeted their images so fast!
What annoys me most about yesterday is the chilled, sarcastic attitude of the tweets themselves and the responses they received.
One women allegedly traveled to terminate her pregnancy while another woman practically snap chatted the journey, except she didn’t show the termination itself or the remains of an unborn baby in an abortion container.
Instead she opted for the here’s the plane, a random train and a waiting room. Worst of all was the absolutely outrageously disgusting “done and dusted” remark after said abortion took place. It’s as much as saying “right, we’ve killed off that problem, who’s for a drink?”
My question to these two women, if you read this, why didn’t you document and live-tweet the unborn baby’s journey too?
Let’s imagine what you would have said, by proxy of course.
“Why are we on the move so early, mum?”…
“Why am I bumping up and down, are we on a plane?”
“Eat something mum, I’m starving!”
Then come lunchtime, what happens? Why has the unborn baby stopped tweeting? Why is their Facebook account not posting?
Why is there silence?
I remember one Friday when I was in second year in Ms Hegarty’s religion class.
She rolled in a TV and like most in my class I was thinking to myself, “great, some Would you believe or Nationwide bullsh*t which will pass the 40 minutes”.
Instead, even still to my astonishment, the middle aged woman pressed play on early 90s VHS of a video taped abortion.
What I saw was mind altering. I’ve seen the most awful horror films, lived with 3 rogue lads in college who downloaded and watched everything you can imagine and more, and nothing to this day has come close to what I saw that day in school.
The cold, callous nature of what happened, never mind the flippancy for human life is something I will never forget.
Yesterday is nothing to be celebrated, lauded or flippant about.
If an unborn baby truly was terminated, it’s nothing short of tragic and horrifically sad for the woman who had the abortion.
Similar to hijacking the tragic Savita case (which incidentally the report shows that lady died of sepsis and an abortion wouldn’t have saved her, medical negligence was the cause) the corrupt media completely masked and heralded for dubious and completely unnecessary reasons a tragic event that with the proper support structure in place here should and would never happen.
People need to realise what we’re talking about before the abortion referendum takes place, it’s people, not a person. A mother and a child.
If you don’t believe me, watch Ms Hegarty’s live abortion video for yourself.