A song on the difficult choice to abort or keep a pregnancy
Baby, Oh Baby
you can’t run you can’t evade
sooner or later a choice must be made
Baby, Oh Baby
How will your baby live
when you’ve got so little to give?
No fun – you cannot run
you can’t evade
the choice must be made.
What is wrong? What is right?
To destroy or to give life?
What is wrong? What is right?
Can you make such a sacrifice?
Baby, Oh Baby
what kind of life
can you give this child?
And ten years down the line
what do you think you will find?
Baby and Baby in a trailer park
where fear runs rampant after dark
and the phone don’t work ’cause the bills
ain’t paid
and you’re barely surviving on
government aid
and the child keeps crying ’cause he’s
hungry again
and you’ve got no money to buy food
for him.
Baby, Oh Baby
you’ve got a tough choice to make
you keep wondering
which would be a mistake
Can you face the guilt you will feel
if you give your command to kill?
And ten years down the line
what do you think you will find?
A woman whose self-loathing keeps creeping in
long after the priest has absolved the sin.
A Baby looking for her Baby in
each child’s face
and a crushing of her soul she calls disgrace;
And all the stars in the heavens
and all the salt in the sea
can’t bring back your unborn baby.
Baby, Oh Baby
you cannot run
from this thing.
Baby, Oh Baby
How will your baby live
when you’ve got so little to give?
No fun – you cannot run
you can’t evade
the choice must be made.
What is wrong? What is right?
To destroy or to give life?
What is wrong? What is right?
Can you make such a sacrifice?
© Sabrina Santa Clara, 1988