Today’s New Verse News: THE SUPREME ABORTION
by Lavinia Kumar
Supreme Court says it can’t determine who leaked draft Dobbs opinion.
—The Washington Post, January 20, 2023
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No one Confessed or squealed The babe was dripped, not leaked. Did the French letter have a hole? Don’t tell. In Court, No leak of Roe— No trust in settled law. Was the IUD aborted? Don’t tell. The pill’s Bitter poison Sure to gag young women. The law’s cold still-birth not controlled? Don’t tell.
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Lavinia Kumar’s latest book is Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists—very short prose of near 90 amazing women writers, poets, publishers, painters, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists.