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To: Poet who wrote (33)	2/9/2001 6:17:27 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 51750

I only understand it through the experiences of others. The few women I know who have had abortions (that I know of) all had sorrow. It was for the loss of possibilities it seemed to me. As the sorrow over a miscarriage. The one thing I can relate personally is that my mother had a stillborn child before I was born. We still have the baby names book that my sisters and I used when I was little to pick out names for the child, even though it had been years ago. We were 4 girls, and though we didn't know the sex of the child, we decided he would have been our brother. We narrowed it down to Butch or Bruce. I grew up thinking about him now and then. What he would have like. How he would have taken me around as my "big brother". What our family would have been like with him. How he would be here taking care of the farm and I could be a crazy poet somewhere. <g> And when friendships, relationships, jobs, towns... end.. we are left thinking now and then of the "possibilities". It is a condition of being human. And one that exists beyond abortion. But I have never had to make such a wrenching decision. And I know of no one who made that, or lived with that, decision lightly. They understood the depth of the possibilities they were closing. And no stranger, or friend, calling them names could hurt on the same level as picturing the child as a toddler, or going off to school. Sometimes it is the right decision. And every door closed allows another to open.