Abortion is Normal Taboo
‘…rate of conceptions leading to abortion among [UK] women aged 20-24 was 33.2% in 2017
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telegraph.co.uk
I was 24. Healthy. Housed.
Happy with my partner.
Not raped, not in danger:
Not justified.
I knew I was pregnant
When the smell of frying oil
Made me
Sick.
And the night would wake up in the middle of me,
Sobbing, shaking, sweat-stinking.
My whole body was one big NO.
Bitch
mothers reabsorb puppies into their body
Up to over halfway through gestation,
Based on infection, threat or environmental stress.
Wrong
I might be, but I believe that the soul
Attached to those cells
Was unconditionally forgiving, not at all
Selfish.
Better than me, of course; divine.
We made sweet peace, I chose release and relief.
I chose wolf mother. I chose me.
And yet
the world still hasn’t
Made peace with me, or my many sisters
With our pro-me choices.
