Tag: abortion

• pro-choice

  Abortion activism. Maybe it’s insulting to the men around us because we’re admitting we’ve slept with men who woudn’t make good fathers. People we realized couldn’t look after our needs in a pregnancy, couldn’t provide for a child. Our self-worth was low, so was theirs. Our consciousness wasn’t all there and future-orientated, neither was theirs. […]

  chanawrites

  July 4, 2022

  stream of consciousness

  abortion, pro-choice, roe v wade, writing

• Sex is only for procreation

  We will ban all sexual activityoutside the seven days a monthof possible fertility If your sperm aren’t swimming well,You must cease making love to your spouseand seek divorce We understand marriage is Only for making childrenso once the are raised up to schoolthere will be no marital caresses and kisses, defilers of the sacramentshall file […]

  chanawrites

  June 27, 2022

  poems & prose

  abortion, catholic, catholicism, marriage rights, poem, poetry, reproductive rights, roe v wade, women's rights

• Roe v Wade overturned – to my Catholic community

  (Raised Catholic writing anti-abortion essays, so I write with that community in mind) I am numbyou think you need government forceto stop pregnant women from killing their own flesh and blood? Maybe I’m justan animal tearing my wombbody rejecting itchromosomal errors, illnessNo support, no oneWhat happenedduress, fear for my life and livelihood, for hers—–(maybe once we […]

  chanawrites

  June 24, 2022

  Uncategorized

  abortion, catholic, christian, christianity, consent, poem, poetry, pro-choice, pro-life, roe v wade