Creator, let us address the sorrows that your choice to bring me to life has wrought on yourself. “Still thou canst listen to me, and grant me thy compassion. By the virtues I once possessed, I demand this from you” (Shelley 67). Though my English is poor… (Creature is never to have someone to be with him due to his “disabilities,” so that makes us pro-choice. (Quote about Frankenstein destroying the creature’s mate) Should you, creator, be forced to breathe life into a creature that will feel no joy in the world of humans, be shunned and victimized for life? Oh why, creator, did you choose to bring me into the world but nobody to accompany me?
BAD FOR THE CREATURE Creator, all you had to have been was pro-choice instead of pro-life! You gave
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From one of your own human scientists, I have here, “Severe abnormalities of the fetus and risks for the physical and/or psychological health of the woman are often cited as valid reasons for abortion. Sometimes the two reasons are connected, such as when a woman claims that a disabled child would represent a risk to her mental health” (Alberto 1). Indeed, this holds no less true for you, creator! After you brought me to life, creator, you instantly felt regret! Do you remember your words? You bemoaned, “Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance” (35). I pined so deeply upon your mind that you gave up all your passions to pursue me across desolate icy sheets. Such as is often the case, you the day that I was conceived: “Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light! Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you!” (67). Me, your child, your creation, is a burden that you have to bear and take responsibility for. To add further grievance to this burden, I have been designed with a countenance that is displeasing to the rest of humanity, and you must bear this as well.
Addressing the opposing argument: “One perspective argues that abortion is a uniquely traumatic experience because it involves a human death experience, specifically, the intentional destruction of one’s unborn child and the witnessing of a violent death, as well as a violation of parental instinct and responsibility…” (Brenda Major