The heartbeat bill that has recently plunged into the spotlight now makes all abortions illegal after the first heartbeat can be heard. It's strictest variation, now being in Alabama, which makes pregnancies caused through rape and incest, illegal to be terminated as well. I wonder if this goes into effect once a painfully invasive technique finds a heartbeat early on, or if the heartbeat is heard 6 weeks after conception and qualifies as a felony if it were to be aborted. My first question however, is whether this bill and its supporters are really pro-life, or is that merely the blanket that hides their true motive- control.
He goes to school.
Ready for the chemistry test he stayed up all night to prepare for.
Is he ready for the piercing sound of a gunshot?
Is he ready for the sound of several?
Is he ready to realize that the ‘later’ in “See you later, mom” wasn’t a reality anymore?
Where is your concern for his heartbeat now?
They just want to give their children a life free of poverty,
A life full of opportunities that they could never dream about having for themselves.
They know that the “land of the free” can provide their children with everything and more.
What they don’t know is that their freedom is going to be limited to cages
At the border, along with hundreds of other families with the same dreams.
Where is your concern for their heartbeats now?
She parks her car and heads to the grocery store.
One month from now she wont be Eating for two anymore, she’d be Feeding him.
She starts heading back to her car,
How could she forget her phone?
Little does she know, that just when she reaches for it and steps out,
her harmless, Communication device
Will resemble a Glock 42,
Which is the Only reason (definitely not because she’s black) why a bullet rams into the side of her head,
A gift from the country’s immensely Esteemed police officers.
Where is your concern for Both of their heartbeats now?
He’s sitting still, bouncing his leg impatiently.
They told him someone was coming today,
and he thinks his wishes have finally been answered.
The clock strikes 2 and the door opens, his eyes searching for his new hypothetical parents,
But it's a little boy?
“You have a new roommate!”
How many more kids will enter this system before he gets a chance to a brand new family?
Where is your concern for his heartbeat now?
Where is your concern for the thousands of children
Unable to go to college, because they cant afford to sell their kidneys for 4 years of education?
Or for the people crippling under the burden of that same debt, years after graduating?
What about the women who Still make only 80 cents for every dollar a man makes?
Or the girl who is just as capable of curing cancer, as her potential baby is?
Where is your concern for the parents can't afford the best treatment for their sick child, because they don’t have anymore organs left to sell?
Or for those part of the LGBTQ+ community that still face constant harassment and abuse for Just being themselves?
Or the girl, who was raped before she even knew what it was, forced to now give birth to a child, when she is still one herself?
Where is your concern for their heartbeats now?
Do you still hear them?
Or did they Conveniently fade away?
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