Someone might argue that you become a mother as soon as fertilization occurs while another says that you don't become a mother until the child is born. It could be pointed out that perhaps she had a child before her miscarriages, (Brooks had two children), thus making her title truthful. If she goes out on a limb, some might think that another ironic point is the reason she had an abortion, she was worried about her situation. Maybe she was in a bad place in her life and wouldn't be able to care for the children, so she "stole [their] births and [their] names" (17). By not having children, she could have protected them from hunger, disease and abandonment. Overall, Brooks has a direct and overbearing way of making readers feel moved by his situation. Abortion is a difficult topic for everyone to discuss and often leads to protests, arguments and physical disputes on both sides. It seems that the simplest solution (which is NOT abortion), for someone who does not want or cannot handle the necessary care for a child, would be to practice