ABORTION

While not being judgemental this poem nevertheless puts a different perspective on something that has become quite routine nowadays.

By Stanley Collymore

 

You’re principally a foetus without a soul or any

moral claims on the rest of us; no voting rights

that are knowingly being infringed - in short,

you’re dispensable in every way and rightly

so. So why should anyone bother about

you, or care in the least whether you

live or die? Unless, that is, they

have a conscience, which

forces them to see your

callous murder as the

mindless butchery

that it really is.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

18 January 1998.