Abortion Revisited

Using abortion simply as a means of contraception is I think abhorrent. This poem expresses that point of view.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Rape, enforced incest, endangerment to the mother’s health

or life, or an early diagnosed horrendous foetal deformity

or recognized hereditary or other incurable disease

being carried by that foetus whose quality of life

would be seriously impaired or virtually

none, are all plausible reasons, if an

imposed or even an intended

conception occurs, to

logically and ethically

have an abortion.

 

But to simply or else lazily use it as a deferred

mechanism for contraception and callously

do so in an age and society replete with

a full range of highly effective ways

to freely obviate all possibility of

having unwanted pregnancies.

 

Or even worse having women and likely

mothers, of all people, either naively,

asininely or even willingly yielding

to the demands of men: be they

husbands or partners who

hubristically or else for

so-called cultural reasons

don’t want daughters

but have a twisted preference for sons;

is nothing less than the insensitive

and cold-blooded perpetration of

gratuitous and unpardonable

murder in my opinion!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

22 February 2013.