Two foreign artists are staging a pro-choice public manifesto in Valletta this evening.

Sara Leghissa, an Italian artist, is rearranging the poem I Want An Abortion Everyday by Simon van Saarloos, a Dutch/American writer.

“Unborn celebration imagines abortion as an everyday political practice for all,” the artist wrote on social media.

“Instead of calling for a mere legislation, the artists want more – more life unborn, more potential unfurled, imagining ‘more abundance, a future potential.'”

This public manifesto is happening just tonight at 7pm at Fort St Elmo.

This is the poem that inspired the piece:

“I want an abortion.

I want an abortion every day. I am gay. I never even touch cis men (but they touch me all the time). I won’t make life for the state. I want an abortion every day. I don’t want conscious slow decision making or nagging guilt. I don’t want to imagine a child ten years later, I want to celebrate a life not existing, a potential not pressed into societal oppression. Even without a fetus pending in my non-binary womb-gut, I want an abortion every day. I want to get vacuumed unapologetically, I want to celebrate all the many many people who went before and got it done. I want to say congratulations, not “are you okay?” I want an abortion every day.”