July 24, 2024
RIGHTS REJECTED
SCOTUS decision … gravity
Cruelty, violence, depravity
Fundamental rights rejected
Decision came as expected
Focused Far-Right … this precedent
By Republican presidents*
Fifty years after Roe v. Wade
Women’s health choices now forbade
Pro-choice supporters are now stunned
Trusted life options are now shunned
Female citizens … second class
Reclaim their RIGHTS … they march in mass
Unprecedented reversal
Settled law without rehearsal
Ended expansion … human rights
Target: pregnancies overnight
Half the states within this union
Laws supporting this opinion
Religion spurns democracy
Freedom against theocracy!
When right to life is now forced birth
An unformed zygote has more worth
Yet children are still killed in school
Gun culture over life is ruled
Repercussions, care upended
Healthcare on which most depended
With complicated pregnancies
Lead to death of mothers-to-be
SCOTUS ruling, regressive crime
Women aren’t trusted in their prime
To plan their lives, health, families
Freedom of choice … OUR DESTINY
INSPIRATION: NYTimes Series of articles The top article entitled:
Access to Abortion Plummets as Effects of Supreme Court Ruling Take Hold.
As more trigger laws banning abortion take effect, the country is rapidly sorting into two —
a half where abortion is still legal, and a half where it is either outlawed or severely restricted.
