component 1 - devising

scene 7 - monologue

my monologue

We went to the doctor's surgery. ‘No’ they said as  my baby cried in my arms, ‘we need an appropriate and reasonable medical judgement saying that the performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female.’ The pregnant female! How dare they. This ‘pregnant female’ is my 10 year old daughter who was raped by a 28 year old man i dont even know. Reasonable, appropriate, what fits into these categories if not this. These hypocrites say all they want is to protect my daughter, allow her to continue with her life safely. But dont they realise the physical and emotional torment she has endured. My baby, oh my poor baby. It makes me sick that society will just brush this under the carpet, discarded like all the other women who are abused daily. Women, god women, she's only a child. How is she expected to carry on living her life with the constant reminder of her trauma? To go every day staring at her baby and seeing his disgusting face glare back, a constant reminder of her pain. She would never be able to love that baby the way it deserves, her love would be forever tainted. Ok,ok. We’ll drive to indiana. Yes, yes. I'll find the money to travel,I have to. I can't allow my daughter's rights to be discarded like this, pushed aside just because she's a child. I can't let what happened to me happen to her. I had no one fighting my corner, my own mother went against my wishes. If it's what she wants, she will have an abortion. I'd drive to the end of the world for her, we can surely make it to indiana. My beautiful baby girl, I'll fix this for you, I promise.

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