Back Alley Surgery lyrics

Supreme Court sits in Washington

Every one a mother's son

Women's fate is lost and won

Behind that heavy door

The Justices preside in noble ease

None of them ever suffers pregnancies

So they hand out decisions such as these:

Back alley abortions for the poor

Yes, back alley abortions for the poor

Wire hanger abortions for the poor

Well-to-do people can manage well

Anything they need they can buy and sell

But the teenage drifter can walk in Hell

Or roll on the back room floor

And the battered children who bruise and bleed

And the mother with too many kids to feed

Pro-life offers them in their need

Back alley abortions for the poor

Yes, back alley surgery kitchen knife solutions,

Wire hanger abortions for the poor

• Artist:Malvina Reynolds