Abort Not Poem by Adeline Foster

Abort Not

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Abort Not


Each man knows his allotted worth,
The three score years and ten;
Yet few were those who survived at birth
Through the ignorance of men.

They called it the Dark Ages,
When life expectancy was short;
In statistics that they calculate
Were the lives snuffed at the start.

Through the annals of an enlightened age
There march a million strong,
The children who are slaughtered
Before they can be born.

Was life expectancy less great
When accident stilled the voice
Than when the deaths mount in a land
Where parents kill by choice.

The politicians who passed the pro-abortion law
were about thirty years too late.
Thirty years sooner that law could have slaughtered
the voters who put them in office.

Friday, June 28, 2013
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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dave Walker 28 June 2013

A great poem about something that divides so many people. A great write.

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Louis Rams 04 July 2013

why has humanity gone to the ground - if it continues this way, no one will be around

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Edward Kofi Louis 07 July 2016

Abortion is a crime! ! Yet, each man knows his allotted worth. Thanks for sharing.

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Phyllis Strong 03 August 2013

The joy of a child, some will never know. Good poem Adeline, I pray that it will save a life today. …God has blessed America With the babies that he give; and we abuse and neglect them, and kill them daily still… Phyllis

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Lucifera Santez 20 July 2013

enlightening.........

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Khloe Chase 19 July 2013

Thank you for your comment on my poem Her Beginning was Her End. Your poem has such a good point and I love your way of putting it. Thank you for suggesting this poem to me.

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Patricia Grantham 13 July 2013

A very good and thought provoking write. The wording and meaning was done with good details and finery. Good write.

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Adeline Foster

Adeline Foster

Instructor of poetry, Hagerstown, MD
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