ABORTION REVISITED

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.