Your Life can be Cheap

Your life can be cheap if you haven't been born,
The choice of a mother whose heart wouldn't mourn
The fact you weren't given the chance to arrive
Into the world, at full term and alive.

Five hundred years in the past it was known
A baby was separate; they would not condone
Executions of women until they were sure
It was one they were killing, and not two or more.

But today in most countries the law there now bows
By strange logic down to a view that allows
The mother and child to be thought of as one;
All rights are the mother's; the baby has none.
It's part of her body, despite all we know,
And accepted as fact since those days long ago;

How can it be that ideas have gone back,
And so many people today seem to lack
The power to see clearly what people once knew,
A baby and mother are not one, but two.