Sense Sonnet - Acher

Unplanned

The pregnant woman did decide
To get a late term abortion
Which was then legal the state wide,
The law allowed it to be done.
Proper medical staff was there.
The procedure got underway.
The woman got the best of care,
Then an unexpected delay.
An abortion was carried out,
And a fetus was removed dead,
But the woman had twins, no doubt,
One live fetus born in good stead.

An unplanned outcome came to be,
One twin survived and that was me.