evil precedent

Three fifths the value you'd assess a man
behukotai constrains a woman's place
an age before James Madison's grand plan
we'd codified the West's sexist disgrace.
Obsessing on the happenstance of birth
as if one chromosome defined one's fate
impugning what  our sisters' lives are worth
is not for halakhah  to legislate.
Strange code for how a People should behave
when first they undertook to live lives free.
Remember how it sucked to be a slave
but don't give those you've bought their liberty.
The code for cohanim can be obscure;
what we're supposed to learn here I'm no sure.