TikTok of Girl Getting an Abortion Divides the Internet

A girl’s TikTok of her friend getting an abortion is going viral and dividing the internet. TikTok user @cpcake21 posted a video of her friend, Ashley, getting an abortion. The TikTok starts by showing a positive pregnancy test, captioned “Abortion time!” and shows Ashley looking in the mirror wiping her face with a tissue.

The TikTok continues and shows Ashley showing off her baby bump, and nervously laughing outside Planned Parenthood.

Inside Planned Parenthood, the TikTok shows one couple in the waiting room leaning on each other, somber, and Ashley trying to lighten the mood with a fist pump.

The video ends with Ashley on the table in a medical gown.

Some viewers were horrified that people would record their abortion and were offended by a TikTok making light of the situation.

Lila Rose, president of Live Action, a pro-life group that has been banned from TikTok, said the TikTok violated community guidelines such as violent content, depictions of deaths, and dismembered humans.

https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1233093259095769088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1233093259095769088&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2020%2F02%2F27%2Fviral-tiktok-shows-teenage-girls-giggling-while-one-gets-an-abortion%2F

The TikTok does not show death, nor dismembered humans.

Some viewers were appalled at Ashley’s “flippant” attitude.

This is so distressing! People really do have this flippant attitude about abortion and it makes me so sad. Lord, change our hearts.
— Lorena (@LSauce09) February 27, 2020

This is the left

What happened to “abortions should be safe, legal, and rare”?

Now they’re celebrated and streamed on social media

Sick & depraved—this is the culture they want to force us to live in

https://t.co/yeptZ1DfKa
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 27, 2020

Others felt more conflicted over their stance on access to abortion, and whether it’s appropriate to post on social media.

I have no issue with abortion but I don’t think treating it like a joke is appropriate
— butt-weiner the conqueror (@skeetsock42) February 28, 2020

These abortion celebration TikTok videos are something else 🤣.

If you want to abort your kid and kill your own offspring I’m not going to be the one to stop you, but why do these chicks celebrate abortions as if they’re collecting Pokémon gym badges?
https://t.co/Fr5eDvzIHJ
— Wuhan the Merchant Will 🥸☕️☢️ (@bigpwill231) February 28, 2020

Some viewers defended Ashley against the hate she’s receiving online, and defended the right to safe, legal abortion.

Abortions usually take less than 5 mins. Its a very basic, non invasive procedure in the first tri. There’s no baby yet- It’s an embryo or fetus. Couldn’t tell from the ultrasound but it was early. Some ppl smile in anticipation of pain. Its to calm yourself down, she’s not evil
— claudia (@shrillandchill) February 28, 2020

Instead of praying, y’all could demand our legislators ensure healthcare for all; free birth control, age appropriate reproductive education.

I’m all for reducing the need for abortions.

The Lord helps those who help themselves. Faith by itself, without works, is dead.
— EmpireEm LockHimUp!!! 🔗🔗🚓🚓 (@StillHereBugger) February 28, 2020

People having abortions later in pregnancy have either been prevented/delayed from having an abortion or are have a medical issue that makes this their best option. None of these people deserve to be demonized, they deserve support. And better access earlier would decrease this.
— Feminist Steph (she/her) (@StephFeminist) February 28, 2020

Would love to see how a 6 week old embryo could survive outside the womb. Oh wait.
At 6 weeks what you are thinking of is nothing more than random, uncontrolled, electrical signals. Not an indication that they are conscious at all. Just like the reason the heartbeat bill failed
— Jade (@JadeStarkk) February 28, 2020

2nd TM abortions are mostly for previously undetected fetal anomalies or for women who have been prevented by law/circumstance from obtaining 1st TM service. 3rd TM are virtually always wanted pregnancies gone horribly wrong. Nobody & I repeat NOBODY ‘wants’ a 3rd TM abortion.
— Maqart (@maqart55) February 28, 2020

The TikTok account @cpcake21 has since been set to private, so her videos are no longer available to the public.

A TikTok of a girl getting an abortion is going viral—and the internet is divided

The video’s comedic tone has struck a nerve with conservatives.

Esther Bell