Whose Choice Anyway

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My son is a highly trained GP with no end of letters after his name but he will have nothing to do with abortions and therefore he can get no work. Discrimination? It must be. He has the highest of references and nobody can find fault and yet he cannot find a place to hire him. OUT TO KILL Just an unborn babe New quickened in his mother's womb A tiny scrap Of real humanity, and with completed body, Waiting but to grow: The shade of hair and eyes already there And bent of mind.

So who is this they will destroy, While Sister and nurses look sadly on So sadly on - their true-sworn oaths In dismal ashes? Who is to die before he lives? A poet or a prophet An inventor or a saint? V. A.


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