London - A US woman who described her abortion in graphic detail on Twitter and YouTube has provoked a furious backlash.
Angie Jackson, 27, has received death threats and been condemned by anti-abortion activists for her account of taking a pill to induce a termination.
Messages on her blog have labelled her a "w****" and a "baby killer". Others have sent Bible verses and offers to adopt her four-year-old son, who has special needs.
After a life-threatening first pregnancy, Jackson, from Tampa, Florida, was advised by doctors not to have any more children.
She and her boyfriend found out she was pregnant again on February 13, just over three weeks after she conceived.
Doctors said she could take the RU-486 drug, better known as the abortion pill, rather than have a surgical termination because the pregnancy had been detected so early.
Going under the name "antitheistangie" on Twitter, Jackson then went public with the details.
In one post on February 21 she wrote: "Cramps are getting a bit more persistent." Other, more graphic posts followed.
In the YouTube video, she gives a similarly vivid account of her termination.
She said she did so because she wanted to "demystify"' abortion for other women.
"I had made a decision when my son was born to try to not get pregnant again, and if that failed I'd planned that I would get an abortion if I needed one," Miss Jackson added.
"My goal is to stay alive, and the best chance of that is to have an abortion. It is not shameful. It is not killing a child."
Since Miss Jackson posted the messages the number of people following her progress on Twitter has more than doubled from 800.
She said: "Emotionally, for me, doing this in the open and having the support of my friends has made this immeasurably easier.
"This has made me feel like it is an unfortunate experience but not something by which I have to define myself or my life by.
"I don't feel like I'm doing anything different from what I do every day.
"But now I have people calling me a killer, it's surreal."
She added: "I've just been astonished by the level of hatred and death threats and threats of violence against my son. It's been a very ugly side of people to see.
"I'm not trying to ignite a culture war, I'm just offering one person's personal experience and true story."
The Family Research Council, which promotes "faith, family and freedom", published a blog calling Jackson's decision a "tragedy".
Jeanne Monahan, the director for the Centre for Human Dignity at FRC, said she "feels sorry" for Miss Jackson.
"I certainly don't agree with her decision to have a medical abortion," she said.
"In my heart I believe it's not good for her or her baby."
Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the US, with attacks on clinics providing late-term terminations common.
Last year a mother of two, Irene Vilar, admitted in a book to being an "abortion addict", having had 15 terminations.
She too faced death threats after her account was published. - Daily Mail