My Body: Singing For Our Lives

   Today we’ll listen to MY BODY’S NOBODY’S BODY BUT MINE.  It seems our Supreme Court doesn’t realize that when there’s an embryo developing inside a woman’s body, that it’s her choice and nobody else’s, to decide if she wants to give birth to that embryo or not.  The supporters of eliminating Roe v. Wade are the same people who sit in their “love thy neighbor” churches, mouthing platitudes like “do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”, while they vote against increasing the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, funding school-lunch programs and any ‘single-payer health-care-for-all’ bills, - all of which would make it possible for impoverished parents to take better care of their children.  These legal constrictions on a woman’s right to choose is certainly not about caring for the welfare of children.  We marched through the streets of Milwaukee back in 1979 singing this song, and since then it's been sung at thousands of rallies, and in classrooms and auditoriums.  Everyone has the right to be in charge of their own physical body.  A woman’s decision to have an abortion is not taken lightly.  It’s something that should never be legislated by anyone but the pregnant woman herself.  It’s complex and personal, and up to one person only.  It’s her choice!  Then we’ll sing along with Holly Near’s anthem SINGING FOR OUR LIVES.  As Joe Hill said, “Don’t mourn, … organize!”  I say, “Don’t forget to vote, and keep singin’!”

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