No mama please don’t kill me.
I am going to be a baby someday.
You will grow to love me
just wait and see.
No mama don’t do it
I love you and you love me.
So please don’t kill me
you will miss me so wait and see.
I am not just a thing that you can throw away
I am a human being that has bones and muscles.
I can feel pain as well.
And I move around, don’t you feel me just moving about.
No mama I am sorry I won’t kick you anymore.
It is my fault that you are doing this.
I will stop and won’t move till I come out
because then I will move about.
So please don’t kill me
for you will miss me, just wait and see.
I am down to the birth canal and ready to come out
So don’t kill me for I will soon be free.
Hannah
Johnson
I believe this poem is talking about abortion, yes? I do not know I just believe this is an issue that every woman has to decide for herself, and I am glad the Supreme Court has protected a woman’s right to choose. I have read articles about women who were in bad positions where they had to get an abortion, and it was not something they wanted to do.
Part of the crux of the issue is the extremely religious types do not want to teach anything about contraception in school, and then they are surprised there are special high schools for girls who are pregnant. If communities were not so up in arms against appropriate sex education programs, then there would be less teens who end up pregnant, and perhaps terminating their pregnancy would they should not have. I commend women who decide to keep their babies, but it does not help that in our current environment with purposed cuts to education and social safety nets that a lot of women who decide to keep the babies will be in a bad situation financially. Ultimately we have to be realistic and realize teens are going to have sex, and we need to teach proper sex education. When people take the proper precautions pregnancy is almost non-existent, and telling teens to be abstinent never works for the most part.