plan C

dear ms.
roman catholic
secretary sebilius---
are you aware of what you have done to the young women
living within the borders of the
empire, today?
are you aware that your
delusional
christian
“ethics”
have led you to stand in front of young women the nation over &
assert that they NOT be allowed
control of their bodies
in this supposed
“land of the free.”

as representatives of the empire maraud the earth
speaking on behalf of the “freedoms” that women have here,
the drug plan b is stopped from being readily available to
young women &
the fact that we all make mistakes
that we all have impulses from which if we are lucky
we can only learn from in
retrospect,
this is all thrown to the side.

rather,
mr. obama, who “was not involved in the process” of
reversing the FDA’s approval for plan b to be sold over the counter
now marches in line
following mr. bible-beating-bush
in the attempt to gain support from pro-lifers everywhere
by speaking of his own daughters
as if they will ever face the same struggles as other young women
in the same way.

as long as believers in this country have any sway
they will beat their drums as loud as possible
in hopes that all will get in line &
pop out kids like a pez dispenser
regardless of what the financial situation might be
in which a young single mother might have to raise it
regardless of whether a father is present or not
regardless of the young woman’s own future aspirations might have been
before she made one impulsive mistake
for which she now must abruptly halt her life completely
for the sake of
one
more
body
on
this
overpopulated
planet.

it’s obvious that women need a
plan C---
they need to be able to circumvent these legal proceedings
which aim at nothing more than stifling their ability to
gain agency in a world that is STILL
male dominated---
but as such a practice might be unsafe or harmful
they continue to suffer
oppressed within the so-called democracy
where their opinions are supposed to
matter.

a
choice
is not a
decision
that others make for
you.