Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother Summary

In “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks, there is an underlying story of sorrow and urgency. It talks of unborn children dying from unnatural causes. A lot of people believe she is writing as if she was the mother of an aborted baby (or multiple), but if one digs deeper into the poem, they will find that the writer may be talking as if she is the abortionist. There are several sources that suggests that she was the doctor that performed abortions. Not only is she apologizing for taking the life of someone's child, but she is writing a letter to the mothers that are thinking about getting an abortion. These children, she writes about, are ones that have felt pain, and, simply stating in the first line, “abortions will not let you forget”.
Many people believe that the speaker is the mother, but there is evidence to the contrary. One of the indications of this is at the end when she writes, “and I loved, I loved you All”. She talks about the babies as if there are multiple. One other instance is when she says, “If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate”. The mother is not the one to be blamed for the abortion, it is the doctor. The doctor poisoned the baby. The abortionist is deliberate in killing babies, but they just go through the motions. The …show more content…
Mothers that have abortions are not the murderer, rather they are one of the victims. Over half of these women are forced into an abortion. It isn’t their fault. Over half of women that get an abortion have PTSD because of it. They understand what they did was wrong, but they don’t understand that it wasn’t their fault. It was the abortionist fault. They (the doctor) know what they are doing, but some, like the one that wrote the poem, don’t really realize it. This woman has realized what she did was wrong, and she wants to warn other women about