Wednesday

Will this song become relevant again?

This is a song written by the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band and released on their only album, Mountain Moving Day, recorded with the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band in 1972. The album has recently been re-released with the addition of two songs by Le Tigre.

ABORTION SONG

We're talkin' about abortion, it's against the law

But we know that it's our right

Control of our bodies we are going to will

We've got to get together and fight

They tell us to get married and have three or four kids
Change the diapers, be a good wife
But we will decide how many children to bear
We've got to control our own life

(Chorus)

Free our sisters, abortion is our right

Free our sisters, abortion is our right

We're talkin' about abortion it's as old as time
Hidden in fear and pain
The witches began it, they were burned at the stake
For helping sisters break their chains

Next came the butchers with their blood-stained hands
We've lost too many sisters that way
Now you go to the doctors and ask them to help
They say come back another day

(Chorus)

We're talkin' about abortion, gonna change the law
And make a better way
Those men with the power got to bend or break
They've got some heavy dues to pay

(Chorus)

Words & music: New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band (1972)

1972 Band Advertisement

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