They use their religion to kill

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You’re entitled to practice your
�religion, no matter how stupid
�it is, but not when it involves human
�sacrifice. You’ve condemned

women to death, gushing their
�lives out in blood-soaked beds.
�I grew up through this injustice,
�this willingness to sacrifice

women to your opinions, citing
�laws written when a poor person
�could be hanged for stealing
�a loaf of bread. You want to burn

witches, that is, all women who
�claim that we own our bodies.

Marge Piercy is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.