It Had a Due Date

[zebra]

"Do ya think they sucked it out with one of those vacuum things?"
"How the fuck would i know, man ? i don't even wanna know."

i saw it on TV once - they suck it out with a vacuum or rip it apart limb by limb
yours was too small Sam, it didn't have limbs
maybe it felt something micky? do ya think it felt something?
don't know.
could you find out? do you think you can find out for me? please.
yea, YEA i'll find out.

I can't get it out of my head and i think i'm going crazy.
It was legal, Sam. it's legal in the U.S.A. how 'wrong' can it be?

I don't know how you can do it, live on, i still see his face.
my story was different, Evan was born alive. I kept all the kids i made.
how do you distance yourself from it, without making yourself cold?
who said i wasn't a little dead inside sam ?

i can't look at her anymore micky, when i look at her, i look...
what ?
i look at her stomach.
that's not where they take it out sammy
i can't have sex with her, i'm asking her to move out tomorrow.
jesus christ
it had a due date micky.
shut up.
i asked if it was a boy or a girl
shut UP. you WHAT ?
i asked...
what the fuck man ?

it had a due date and i just erased it.
"Erased it like it was something i didn't need anymore."

"Well, Sam - isn't that exactly what it was to you ?
Something you two didn't need anymore? "

[perfect wing]

Hits too close to home, Micky. I'm speechless...

[shadow of a dream]

abortion is a tough decision

"do ya think it felt something?"
(from planned parenthood) Almost all abortions are performed before the capacity to feel pain develops

however "wrong" it is is based on your own morals .. i don't think it's something that anyone can quite grasp as completely "right."



-valerie

[elisa_mo_myra]

oh my. now that i'm in tears! wow.

[angel hotel]

i'm completely speechless...

[masjpk]

zebbie-

Who knew that you were a poet. "Something you two didn't need anymore." Very poignant. *smoooch*

[Samantha]

Thanks zebra, for showing how difficult this decision is and how it is not made by cold, heartless women who don't give two thoughts to it. This emphasizes how ugly and undesired abortions are...and how very necessary they must be if people are willing to deal with all the emotional repercussions of making this very hard decision.

[Unforgiven Luv]

Wow Zebra, I'm speechless.That has got to be one of the most powerful threads I have ever read.

[PreciousSpark]

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[zebra]

She's now out of his house now and he's left with two ghosts.
Fathers are the forgotten tragedy of abortion. In the end it's the mothers decision to make, whether or not the father is kicking and screaming 'please don't kill my baby'...too bad, it's her decision.
odd. is it only because she carries it for 9 months ? it was half his and yet he had no say in the matter. He determines the sex of the child, yet he has no say in the final decision.
No buddy, you can't bury it. There's nothing left to bury.

[Nera]

Wait...Zebra, did you WRITE this? Or is it from a movie or book? If you did write this, then I'm amazed - it's brilliant.

[Samantha]

"is it only because she carries it for 9 months"

ONLY!?!

[Antigone]

[edit]forget it.

[zebra]

my name is micky, my best friends name is sam.
Unfortunately it is no movie or book, but an actual conversation. verbatim, to the best of my memory.


and 9 months of nausea & fatness is a small price to pay for the honor of carrying a human life.
so, yea, *only* 9 months.

m.

[nirak]

Samantha- exactly.

It's the way nature is. When it's possible to implant the embryo and let the man carry it (they're getting close) he has a say. Until then- guys, better make sure you wear a condom.

OR- if he's that insistant on it, he can pay for the medical procedure to take the embryo out and pay a surrogate mother to carry your child. That'd be an interesting situation. If it's a baby's life, money should be no object, right?

Course, you'd have to decide REAL early on in the game.

-k