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So twisted the world. States in the US offer no leeway when it comes to choosing not to give an unwanted embryo life and yet in the same country people want perfect designer babies and reject the rest while there are desparate parents who cherish the child that can only make their poor life that much worse and just as desparate people who would welcome the chance to have any cast off  regardless off where it came from. 

Good poem, but I think you could reword some phrases to get your message over more powerfully.

Very telling. And what after all are hair/eye colours, even possible intellectual abilities? What of the child's needs when they are going to be awkward and need helpful direction and training to deal with their tempers and teenage angsts. The children aren't ornaments for their parents, they are persons, and just so, 'unwanted embryos' aren't theirs to discard, and as Ed said, there are many who would cherish the privilege of parenting those. Rhiannon

I certainly think this is a big improvement on what was already a good poem. By trimming some of the words (some say redundant phrases, but I don't lke that expression) this piece really punches out the message. You need cherries for this, but I'm not an editor so I can't award them (but in my head you have them )