I do not know
what it's like
to have an abortion
but I do know
your chancessixty-two percent
your chances
of being adopted
are at
sixty-two percentand that is only
while you're young
before you have had
the chance
to become more growntwenty-eight percent
your chances of
being abused in
the foster system are at
twenty-eight percentand that's just
in New York aloneso you can imagine
those numbers are higher
because these children
have been taught
not to claim painor they will be
without a homeone in six
a woman's
chances of
being sexual assaulted are
one in sixstatistically speaking
more men make a home
of a woman's body
than many foster children
have ever actually knownso who are you
to tell me
that He has a stronger claim
to my body
than my own
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