Pregnancy = Punishment (Poetry) by Catherine Zickgraf

Pregnancy = Punishment
by Catherine Zickgraf

Q: Why must a woman continue an unwanted pregnancy?

A: This is the sin God cannot allow.
Yea, these two sins are an abomination:
opening your body to fornication and
aborting the fullness of your consequence.

Author bio:

Catherine Zickgraf is a former American Northerner excited about growing her roots into the red Georgia clay. Her most recent credits include a forthcoming poem in Journal of the American Medical Association’s “Poetry and Medicine” section.