ISSUE S


Reader round table


Acceptance


by Annie Afrodite, writer, dancer and lover of life ALL OF MY LIFE I’d wanted and naively just expected that one day I’d become a mum. I’ll be 42 this year and I’ve been pregnant once in my life. I was 23, partying much too hard for an expectant mother, and knew I wasn’t equipped for children yet. So the immediate choice I (we) made was to abort.


The termination didn’t go without consequence. Nobody had prepared me for the hormones. Soon after, I had a nervousness break down, teetering on the edge of suicide.


In my youthful mind, I’d taken a poor, innocent, voiceless 12-week-old life, and the pain was too much to know what to do with. I still think about that moment of my evolution as a woman and wonder what could’ve been – did I make the right choice? Does any woman truly know that?


Nineteen years on and I have regret for that decision.


36 MAY 2015


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