Speaking up for Zoe

Graham Nicholls  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 May 2020
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Speaking	up	for	Zoe

IF I COULD SPEAK:
Letters from the womb
By Mark Jones
Christian Focus. 72 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 1 527 104 662

Abortion statistics for the UK are eye-watering and outrageous. There are about 220,000 abortions per year. That is 25 every hour, of every day. At least one baby will have been murdered in the time taken to read this short review.

But sometimes the statistics are not enough to capture our hearts. If I Could Speak by Mark Jones imagines a series of letters from a female baby in the womb, roughly 20 weeks old, self-named Zoe, whose parents are considering an abortion.

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