June 24, Roe v Wade Overturned

 

A religious decision has just been made;

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade.

American women are now second class;

All women’s rights advocates feeling dismayed.

 

American women became second class

The stroke of a pen: Red State-Blue State impasse.

No right to abortion, in Red States, a crime.

And rape, even incest won’t get you a pass.

 

No right to abortion, but make it a crime?

We’ve been stripped of a right and for the first time.

Five decades of precedent, a hill of beans,

Religious right judges were ready to climb.

 

Five decades of precedent, a hill of beans,

Trump’s justices showed us what precedent means.

Trump told us what they were expected to do.

What they told the Senators were all smokescreens.

 

The Court did as they were expected to do;

They took Roe v Wade, and flushed it down the loo.

Justice Thomas opined on what’s coming next;

He listed more “rights” that he’d like to review.

 

Judge Thomas opined what he’d like to see next;

Gay marriage and birth control both in his text.

Could we see a nationwide abortion ban?

Religious right-wing muscles have just been flexed.

 

Could there be a nationwide abortion ban?

A fifty year precedent in the trash can?

Perhaps no exceptions for rape or incest.

It’s right wing religion; the High Court’s clear plan.

 

Perhaps no exceptions for rape or incest,

(Because all conceptions are heavenly blessed?)

A religious decision has just been made.

If pregnant, give birth or you’re risking arrest.