That’s something we can all do, regardless of the size of one’s platform.”Ĭountry singer-songwriter Margo Price finally released her song “Fight to Make It” featuring Mavis Staples and Adia Victoria on Bandcamp shortly after the decision, with all proceeds from streams and purchases going to Noise for Now, a nonprofit that connects artists with grassroots reproductive rights organizations. What I can do right now is use my platform to amplify the experts in this moment. “Misinformation is going to be one of the biggest barriers to connecting people and keeping them safe.
“Right now, the most important thing is to listen to experts: Doctors, lawyers, and activists, especially those who have been on the front lines for decades,” she adds. “We all have a role to play, whether you have a platform or not, in ensuring our democracy survives.” “This is only a small part in a massively anti-democratic effort that is underway in this country,” she explains. Last week, Abrams released a limited-edition T-shirt with all sale proceeds going to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
The idea that a government is regulating healthcare decisions that should be made exclusively between a person and their healthcare provider is not only backwards-facing, it’s predatory in the way in which it will first and specifically harm the people who need it the most.”
“Once the shock settled, it turned into rage. “There was something about the finality of it that was a gut punch in a way I think few of us expected,” she says. While she told Rolling Stone in a statement that the leaked draft opinion should have prepared her for the forthcoming blow, she was still stunned by the news. Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, who toured earlier this year with Olivia Rodrigo, has been using her social media platform to share resources and donation links ever since the decision was handed down. Halsey (who uses they/she pronouns) raised more than $136,000 for The National Network of Abortion Funds last Tuesday by auctioning off five original paintings they created during their recent “Love and Power Tour.” Paramore announced Friday it would be donating a portion of ticket sales for the band’s upcoming fall tour to various abortion organizations, including ARC Southeast, Kansas Abortion Fund and Women’s Shelters Canada. The consequences have already been dystopian, with a 10-year-old girl crossing Ohio’s state lines for an abortion after she was raped and healthy pregnant women begging their doctors to vow to save them if their pregnancy suddenly became life-threatening.Īnd over the past few weeks, musicians have continued protesting and advocating for abortion rights. Wade’s downfall, leading eight states to completely ban the medical procedure and four states barring abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Quinnie is just one of dozens of artists who have been actively using their platforms to decry the Supreme Court’s decision, including Kendrick Lamar, Phoebe Bridgers, Lorde, Billie Joe Armstrong, Pearl Jam, Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles, Eminem and Mariah Carey.ĭuring her Glastonbury set in late June, Olivia Rodrigo called out the five Supreme Court justices by name who voted to overturn the decision, bringing out Lily Allen to send a pointed message with Allen’s 2009 song “Fuck You.” Lizzo teamed up with Live Nation to donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood and Abortion Rights and Rage Against the Machine donated $475,000 to reproductive rights groups in Illinois and Wisconsin.
They’re two very big pieces of the same puzzle.”īy the end of the first week of the release, “Touch Tank” had more than three million streams, which meant quinnie was able to donate roughly $13,000 to the group’s abortion fund. Having good romantic and sexual relationships, on an interpersonal level, I think is equal parts important to having bodily rights in your own country. “I was like, ‘I have something that people want’ and I think there’s a way to make it so that the song isn’t just existing in an echo chamber,” she says. Instead, quinnie decided to donate all revenue that came from the first week of streaming to the Indigenous Women Rising Abortion Fund. I felt this shame and guilt even of being like, ‘Oh, I’m putting out this song at the end of the week.’” “I felt weird about going on the internet and being like, sex is awesome. “I was like, ‘I don’t feel comfortable going on the internet right now and preaching about security and safety in a relationship and having good sex when all this is happening,’” she explains, noting that she’s unlikely to be directly affected by abortion bans because she’s from New Jersey and currently lives in California.
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