A Modest Proposal

After reading Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, I have to say it was a very unique essay. He presents a lot of irony. The one peice that stood out the most was in the opening paragraph. He says " These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livehood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants, who, as they grow up, either turn thieves of want to work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Prestender in Spain, or sell themeselves to the Barbados." (355) Right off the bat he is saying how bad it is to have a baby because they cause the mothers not to be able to work, and in the when they are all grown up  they will turn their backs on their country and will the enemy. Thats when he starts to go into voluntary abortion, while he's talking about abortion he goes into how the mothers should kill the babies and eat them. Its a very gross concept that he gives but either way the mothers are killing their baby or babies if they get an abortion.