(To the tune of “Lady Madonna”)
By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO — Stare Decisis, its time has expired.
With the three judges Donald Trump hired.
Who needs Roe when you are with child?
Carry it to term if you’ve been defiled.
Six weeks is too much time to tarry.
Informers can charge you with a crime.
Fetuses have found these decades scarry.
You’ll pay a fine.
Shadowy dockets, reversing precedent.
Rescinding anything the founders never meant.
Should the state be protecting public health?
Or be more concerned with just protecting wealth?
Lifelong tenure’s never ending.
Overturning settled law.
Our constitution needs amending.
Fixing its flaws.
Stare Decisis, time to toss it out.
Since regressive judges have attained more clout.
Who cares about restricting hard-won civil rights
If they erode the privileges of whites?
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.
I wish our society publicly memorialized aborted babies the way we memorialize fallen soldiers. Both lose their life as a sacrifice for others. Just because a woman decides to abort does not mean the child had no meaning. There is a way to advocate both for choice of women and for dignity of unborn children.