Poetry About Abortion

Poetry about abortion breaks the silence surrounding a common yet stigmatized experience. These verses explore the full spectrum of emotions - relief, grief, empowerment, necessity, and love. They center the person making the choice, honoring their agency and their wisdom.

This collection refuses to simplify a complex reality. It acknowledges abortion as a vital part of healthcare, a responsible parenting decision, and a fundamental human right. From the clinic waiting room to the quiet years that follow, these poems bear witness to the truth that trust in women is the beginning of justice.

Featured Poems

The Clinic Door

The moment of crossing the threshold.

The protesters scream their slogans at the back of my coat, throwing words like stones at a glass house they imagine I live in.

But inside, the air is quiet, the receptionist smiles, and I am not a battleground or a debate or a sin.

I am just a woman doing the best I can with the one life I have been given to carry.

- Lydia Thorne

Mercy

On abortion as an act of care.

They call it selfish, but they do not know the weight of the math I did in the dark.

To say "not now" is an act of love for the children I have, for the child who would need more than I can give, for the self I am fighting to save.

There is mercy in the ending, a quiet grace in closing a door so the windows can stay open.

- Clara Holm

1 in 4

The ubiquity of the experience.

We are your sisters, your mothers, your friends. We sit beside you in church, we bag your groceries, we teach your children.

We carry this secret like a common stone in a pocket, smooth from worry. If we all spoke at once, the sound would shatter the glass ceiling of your judgment.

Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.

- Sarah Mitchell

Micro Verses

No woman makes this choice lightly. Trust her with her own life.

- Feminist wisdom

My body, my choice, my life, my responsibility.

- Bodily autonomy principle

Compassion means trusting women to make their own decisions.

- Pro-choice teaching

You cannot be pro-life and anti-woman. Women are life.

- Reproductive justice wisdom

Deeper Explorations

Abortion & Autonomy

The fundamental right to control one's own body and future.

My Body Is Not Public Property

Strangers feel entitled to debate my uterus on television, in churches, in legislation - treating my body like community property they get to vote on.

But this body is mine. Mine to inhabit, mine to protect, mine to make decisions for. No one else lives in this skin, faces these consequences, walks this path.

- Sofia Martinez

Trust Women

What a radical idea: trusting women to make decisions about their own lives, believing they know their circumstances better than legislators, better than strangers, better than anyone else.

- Elena Rodriguez

Abortion & Healing

Processing the full spectrum of emotions that can follow.

Years Later

I'm a mother now, to the children I chose when I was ready, and sometimes I think about the choice I made ten years ago.

I don't regret it - these children exist because I waited, because I finished school, because I found stability. The choice I made then made this life possible.

- Diana Park

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