RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Rights of Women
Women struggled for the right to vote
Women fought for the right to speak
Women won the right to choose
Who and when they marry
Women won the right to divorce
Women fought for the right to work
Outside the home without consent
Women earned the right to equal treatment
Under the law but not to equal wages
Women demand the right to love
And live with whom they choose
Women have won the right to achieve
In all fields of endeavor
But women lost the right to end
An unwanted pregnancy
Women had won that right but lost it
It was taken from them by
A court of supreme injustice
The question now becomes:
If the court can take this right today
What rights will it take tomorrow?
If the court claims jurisdiction
Over a woman’s body
Where then does it end?
What rights are beyond its reach?
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