Musicians, athletes and different celebrities are utilizing their platforms to reply to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Deliberate Parenthood on Friday.
The conservative-heavy courtroom’s choice has already triggered abortion bans in numerous states and has sparked protests throughout the nation.
Singer Lizzo, within the wake of the choice, introduced she is pledging $500,000 towards Deliberate Parenthood and abortion rights group from her upcoming tour, which begins in September.
“Black girls [and] girls of coloration have traditionally had disproportionately much less entry to household planning assets — it is a nice loss however not a brand new one,” Lizzo mentioned on her Instagram account.
Live performance promoter Stay Nation pledged the identical $500,000 towards abortion rights organizations and likewise agreed to cowl journey prices for workers looking for abortions out of their state, the corporate introduced on Instagram.
British singer Harry Kinds, in a social media put up, wrote about feeling “completely devastated” for Individuals and urged his followers to verify in with family members.
Kinds, in an interview on “The Howard Stern Present” final month, mentioned he didn’t imagine anybody ought to make selections about “anybody else’s physique” after a draft opinion on the ruling leaked from the Supreme Courtroom in Could, Seventeen reported.
Stars additionally made their voices heard off social media within the wake of the choice.
Singer Phoebe Bridgers, throughout a set at England’s Glastonbury Competition on Friday, requested her followers to chant “‘Fuck the Supreme Courtroom’ on three.”
“All these irrelevant previous motherfuckers attempting to inform us what to do with our fucking our bodies,” Bridgers mentioned of the Supreme Courtroom justices.
Bridgers has been an outspoken advocate for abortion rights, releasing a canopy of a Bo Burnham tune in 2021 to assist numerous Texas abortion funds, Leisure Weekly reported.
She’s beforehand revealed she had an abortion and sought help from Deliberate Parenthood.
Other than musicians, star athletes additionally weighed in on the choice.
LeBron James shared a tweet suggesting common well being care and makes an attempt to lower the Black maternal mortality charges within the South can be a focus for anti-abortion advocates in the event that they cared about “infants’” lives.
The choice Friday is “ABSOLUTELY ABOUT POWER & CONTROL!!” James tweeted.
You possibly can learn numerous different celebrities’ reactions to the Supreme Courtroom’s choice overturning abortion rights beneath.
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