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An analysis of the ways in which acceptance of abortion has affected women today with particular reference to Christian beliefs.

An analysis of the ways in which acceptance of abortion has affected women today with particular reference to Christian beliefs.

Unto Us. . .
Somewhere at some time, they committed themselves to me
And so, I was! Small, but I WAS!
Tiny, in shape, lusting to live
I hung in my pulsing cave.
Soon they knew of me, my mother --my father.
I had no say in my being, I lived on trust and love.
Tho' I couldn't think, each part of me was saying
A silent 'Wait for me I will bring you love!'
I was taken, blind, naked, defenceless
By the hand of one, whose good name
Was graven on a brass plate in Wimpole Street,
and dropped on the sterile floor of a foot operated plastic waste bucket.
There was no Queens Counsel to take my brief.
The cot I might have warmed stood in Harrod's shop window.
When my passing was told my father smiled.
No grief filled my empty space, my death was celebrated
With tickets to see Danny la Rue, who was pretending to be a woman
Like my mother.

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Posted by: Margaret Rowden

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