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Abortion rewrite of Jennifer Hudson's And I Am Telling You from the film, Dream Girls

And I am telling you
I'm not going
My father is too good a man
To let you kill him this way you ho
There's no way I'm gonna ever go
No, no there's no way
No, no, no, no way
I'm letting doc scape me outta you
I'm not being rejected by you
I'm coming
My birth is coming
And you, and you
You ain't gonna abort me
Oh ooh ooh yeah mama
You're not gonna abort me

And I am telling you
This embryo ain't going
Even through you're not yet showing
And nobody knows
There's just no way, no way
I'm letting you not take this pregnancy all the way
I want my place
I want my time
Alive inside
Yes, I am flesh and blood
Your flesh and blood
And don't you dare let that one slip your absent mind

And I deserve all the time to see and do
Just the same as you

No, no, no, no, no, no way
You're waking up tomorrow with nothin' livin' anymore in here

Mama darling there's no way
No no no no way
They're removing my unborn fetus from you

Please don't be so dumb to think
You can get rid of me
Gonna give my life to me
Gonna give my life to me
Gonna push and give birth to me
Gonna push and give birth to me

Laid down that man
Now on the way
You got a stubborn little mister
Determined to live
No use
No, no use tryin' to flush me down the can

Tearin' aside all mountains
I'll yell
I'll scream
I'll shout
To get the life I want
I'm not being scaped out
Try to drown us both
In one of those extra deep rivers
Push, strike
This fetus try to kill
I'm not being ripped outta you

And mama I am telling you
I'm not going
Gonna grow to be a big, strong man
So no, no, no
There's no way I'm gonna go
I'm not gettin' scaped outta you
A parent you will be
Never again free
I'm staying
I'm staying
And you, and you
You're not gonna abort me

You're not gonna abort me
No, you aren't
Ooh ooh abort me
Oooh ooh ooh ooh abort me
Abort, abort
Abort me
Hell no, mama!
You're not gonna abort me!

2012 Ramona Thompson