Take a look in the mirror

While the debate on legalization of abortion will probably never be settled, the debate seems to only focus on one aspect of many other pertinent once in the issue. The reason for the debate is the fact that that a child’s life is taken before the child is even born. While this is a strong argument, jury often fails to consider a variety of circumstances that lead to the decision to kill the fetus. What we call “debate on abortion” is not really a debate of this subject. What we see in the media and the news is a debate on after how many months should a line be drawn and determined that a life is gone.
We never weigh the mother’s circumstance, the type of life the child is to have should there not be an abortion, financial constraints, hereditary factors, and many more aspects that abortion in itself entails. The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks talks about a woman in the midst of the aftermath of an abortion, considering all the would-bes have she not done an abortion. Perhaps at a superfluous glance, this poem contradicts my main point, however, it is not so. The heated debate around abortions focus on everything besides the mother’s fate and true feelings; even though the mother in this poem regrets the decision that she has made, to the media and the public it is not a factor in deciding whether one should or should not commit an abortion.
Alone by Maya Angelou describes a world of sorrow, pain, and destitution. Her main points focus on wealthy people who “have hearts of stone,” and that compared to others they consider themselves better and due to their financial standings can succeed without help. While this is a very general belief recognized by many around the world, in my opinion and experience it is everything but true. I have met very wealthy people and I work with very wealthy people; I have likewise met and work with, people who are much less fortunate and not always can afford to have lunch and dinner. From these experiences I can confidently say that there are much more wealthy people with kind hearts who are willing and do help the ones less fortunate, then the pissed off ones who never worked and do not want to. It should come by no surprise that the ones who accumulated their wealth never stand alone and have many people to turn to for help, unlike the beggars who have no one to ask.
Rosario Castellanos is another poet who focuses on the negativity of human nature, and is incredibly right in doing so. “We give life only to what we hate,” is probably the most meaningful quote from all of poetry I have ever read. While the poem talks about our reflections and the like, the main phenomenon and moral is easy to demonstrate. Opposites attract while likes repel. Most people I have met, including myself always hate the people who most closely resemble ourselves, while we praise people for qualities that we do not posses. In doing so, we give life or have qualities that we hate the most.