Birth or Not: Abortion bloggers decide to keep the baby

The American couple, Pete and Alisha Arnold, who created a website where the public could vote on whether or not they should keep their baby, have decided not to abort, despite an overwhelming vote in favour of terminating the pregnancy.

In a short blog post on Birth or Not from the 7th of December, the Arnolds wrote: “For those of you who have continued to ask about us after the final results were posted, we are indeed keeping the baby. Baby ‘Wiggles’ is kicking and seems to be healthy so hopefully we will be able to bring a new life into this world in the spring.”

448 777 votes were cast in favour of the couple keeping the baby, while 1 557 586 people voted for an abortion. Percentage wise it was an overwhelming 77% of people who voted to end the life of the foetus known as “Wiggles”.

But the site gained notoriety around the world and was targeted by the leaderless group known as “Anonymous”, which mobilised its users to vote for an abortion and overwhelm the site. 83.6% of all fraud was in the abortion vote.

The couple wrote: “The total number of fraudulent votes for aborting the pregnancy is astounding. I have no idea why people would go to the lengths that they did to submit fraudulent votes towards abortion. But this all leads back to the reason for voting and how many people don’t take it seriously. In our poll we asked people to vote on the outcome of one potential life, but at every government election the population votes for officials that make decisions that affect thousands, if not millions of people, often in a life-changing way.”

Before the notoriety they gained from Birth or Not, Alisha Arnold worked in a small software company. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English, and is married to Pete Arnold who also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Writing and is an IT consultant. They were an ordinary American couple in every sense of the word, until they decided to use social media on their website, Birth or Not, to decide whether they should abort the foetus.

But the American media exposed them as fraudsters, claiming that this was all a hoax, and that Pete Arnold is also known as “Zeeboid, a right wing internet troll.” Alisha Arnold was subsequently fired from her job.

The Arnolds denied all claims, insisting that Birth or Not was a genuine site and that this was all a major statement on social media and the nature of voting in America.