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The Saving of ME – W2Life

  The Saving of Me My mother thought she couldn’t cope with facing life, devoid of hope; alone and pregnant, due to rape, abortion seemed the one escape; but on arrival at the door, she heard a voice say: “Let’s think more – about the baby in your womb; no matter what, life’s not all gloom. for there is help for girls like you, whose options now seem all too few.” She turned and saw a smiling…

WRITE to LIFE: A Tragic Contradiction

A Tragic Contradiction Killing a toddler can bring to the fore, Opinions and comments, many quite raw; “How could they do such a thing?” goes the cry, “They must be real monsters!” the writers soon sigh; “Prison’s too good for such scumbags as that,” “How could a woman ever be such a rat!” The death of a baby is tragic, it’s true, And many will surely agree with the view That no normal mother…

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY: Love is the cure for eugenics!

     Finding the Cure for Eliminating Eugenics I have the good fortune to live in a leafy and interesting part of town.  By chance the offer of a flat came not long after my mother was widowed.  She was living in the same street and was delighted.   For all its beauty and abundance of incredible trees, however, some house-owners here display ‘manicured lawn syndrome’.  There isn’t even one strand…