In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade, thereby ending abortion rights for millions across the country, Hollywood women are mobilizing to support abortion funds, legislative action, and stories that reinforce important and diverse narratives about the question.
Meanwhile, American celebrities take a stand on social media against the Supreme Court ruling which effectively annulled the right to abortion in the United States.
Quoting
former first lady Michelle Obama
, pop star
Taylor Swift,
writes on Twitter: "I am absolutely terrified that this is where we have come. That after decades of fighting for women's rights to control their bodies, today's decision has robbed us of everything."
I'm absolutely terrified that this is where we are - that after so many decades of people fighting for women's rights to their own bodies, today's decision has stripped us of that.
https://t.co/mwK561oxxl
- Taylor Swift (@ taylorswift13) June 24, 2022
"Unfortunately, today's Supreme Court decision takes away body autonomy from half of our population," wrote Geena Davis, who founded the non-profit research organization
Geena Davis
Institute on Gender in Media, on Twitter.
“We will redouble our efforts to be a voice for women and all under-represented human beings.
We are heartbroken, but our work here and beyond continues. "For actor
Mark Ruffalo,
the Supreme Court has been" transformed into a political body of the religious right, "while actress
Jamie Lee Curtis
shares her experience and announces: "As the MOTHER of two children born to other women who have CHOSEN to carry them out, I will do EVERYTHING in my power to protect the RIGHTS of my daughters to make ANY CHOICE over THEIR without ANY influence or government restriction ".
Model and TV
presenter Padma Lakshmi
warns of the risk that "abortions will not stop just because Roe v. Wade has been overturned. But only legal and safe abortions will stop."
While
Danny De Vito
on Twitter expressed his thoughts with a synthetic: "Supreme Court of my balls".
"Today, Trump's extremist supreme court was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American women," was the
on Twitter.
