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Abortion Kills A Baby by Nell Berry  
   

It's so warm here in my bed. I can kick and turn my head.

I can even suck my thumb. Wonder what I will become.

When Mom was told, I recall, you’ll have a baby in the fall,                                   

 I was only a few weeks old. She was shocked and so afraid.

                   She wished she had paid more attention to her mother.    

She spoke of many others. They also had unprotected sex.

We know there is no fix. Now she’s faced with the decision.

She didn’t know what she should do.

What about her career she wished to pursue?

With a baby, there was no option. No one mentioned adoption.

Planned Parenthood said, make that thing dead.

Get an abortion!

I have ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toes, two depressions for my eyes,

and a tiny button nose.

Oh, I wish my mommie could see, the person I could be.

Won’t someone please help?

I know if she could see, she would not kill me.

Suddenly, the excruciating pain, tearing me from the womb,

In which I’ve lain.

Won’t someone come to my aid?

Won’t someone hear my cry? Though it’s silent in the night.

Stop the searing pain I feel.

Stop the tearing. It’s unreal.

I am being torn apart. Doesn’t anyone have a heart?

Now, I feel the stabbing pain, as the scissors pierce my brain.

Now there’s nothing, no more me.

Just my spirit left to see…..

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Nell Berry [email protected]

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