Please Step Away From the Woman

I wade through my 'friends'

both old and new with an eye on their

'you never used to be that religious'

when we were bar hopping and sliding along

the fine line of 'ladylike' behavior

or your groping on the dance floor of the woman

not yours to grope.

 

I wade through your nose in the air

of your pious and emotional feelings showing

that you do not believe

never will believe

the rights of any woman to control their own

body - it is theirs to do what they want

they can get it drunk, fill it with drugs, lay down

for your sexual obsession

but God on Sunday you pray for salvation

 

The old Testament

that large book found in some caves along

the sea...that book by Jewish scholars

hidden from destruction by those who would do so

treated women as chattel

Don't believe that?  Read the book...

right there along with the cows and the lambs

that they take to slaughter.

 

But I digress in my anger

that men have any right whatsoever, whatsoever

to legislate the rights of a woman

I stand with Planned Parenthood

I stand with women's rights to be equal

to have access to health services that save lives

it saves lives...if it only saves one life

it works.

 

I stand with Planned Parenthood

I stand with women's rights

We are over 50% of America

We are over 50% of college students

Planned Parenthood helps 2.7 million men and women

every single year

The US has 1.9 children per woman

one of the lowest in the world

 

It is time to stop the hatefulness of men

who have no respect for women

and the hatefulness of women who don't believe

we are guaranteed equal protection.

 

I stand with Planned Parenthood

and against those who are working to take away

our rights to our own bodies.

 

barb