The Cursed

There are people who are cursed before they are even conceived.

What are we doing to break the curse?

Abortion is too late.
Birth will inevitably bring a life of pain.

So many who are damned before they are even thought of.
Who's to say that they aren't better off not seeing the outside of a reluctant womb?

When labor is thought of as slavery or a child is considered a parasite.
Thrown in the garbage after birth.
Beaten by a parent who feels trapped.
Scorned by a father who isn't seeing the carbon copy of himself in his 14 year-old's eyes. Or worse yet, scorned by the father who does see himself in his child.
Neglected by a woman who can't see passed her own needs.
Forced to live the same desolate life as the father they visit in jail
or the mother stuck behind the haze of drugs.
Taking their own lives because no one cares enough to see the pain in their eyes.

People kill every day.
People kill to defend their country, the people they love, their own lives.
Or just out of fear, anger, misery.

Abortion has become justifiable, just like self-defense, temporary insanity, or what needs to be done on the battlefield.

And humans aren't so special.
Abortion is a high tech form of the most animalistic instinct.
Self-preservation.
Animals kill their infants for many reasons.
Males kill because they feel threatened.
A deformed calf left behind to die because it can't keep up with the herd.
Others left to starve because their mother can't support them.
Infanticide runs rampant in the animal kingdom; for the same reasons that humans do it.

Is it right or wrong?
What does it matter?
It is.
And it always will be.
Many people are destined to die at the hands of others.
Whether premeditated and quick, or neglectfully and over the course of a lifetime.
If no one is doing anything to stop the curse, maybe an early death is the best option.