Fight by all means for the right to dispose of your body.
American superstar Olivia Rodrigo, revealed by the hit “Good 4 u” via TikTok in 2021, distributed contraception and morning-after pills to her audience this Tuesday, March 12, during a concert in Missouri, a state of the United States. -United States where abortion is prohibited.
While she was performing in the city of Saint-Louis, the 21-year-old artist and her team provided spectators with a stand where free condoms and emergency contraceptives were distributed, reports the BBC.
Free Plan B is being given out at @OliviaRodrigo's GUTS WORLD TOUR in St. Louis tonight by @MOAbortionFund.
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— Rodrigo Times (@RodrigoTimes) March 13, 2024
Part of the profits from the tour donated to associations
A decision taken by the singer due to the ban on abortion in Missouri since the reversal of the Supreme Court of the United States which revoked federal protection on abortion in June 2022. Any termination of pregnancy is there illegal, unless it involves saving the life of a pregnant woman or preventing a major risk to physical health.
Current politicians are also trying to dismantle Planned Parenthood, which complicates access to contraception.
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Olivia Rodrigo launched a campaign last month called “Fund 4 Good”, which aims to protect the reproductive rights of women and girls, underlines The Guardian.
A portion of the sales from his tour will be donated to the fund.
As part of the initiative, the singer partnered with the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), which connected her with the relevant local chapters for each date of her tour.
“I said to myself:
What is this?
They told me it was free, so my sister, her friend and I took some.
Personally, I don’t need it, but I’ll keep it in case something bad happens,” Madelyn Ritter, one of Olivia Rodrigo’s fans, told the Guardian.
US senator calls initiative 'horrible'
Republican Senator Bill Eigel, elected from Missouri, declared himself “horrified” and denounced an approach of which the singer should “be ashamed”.
He mentions a distribution of “abortifacient products” while most “of his fans are children”.
It should be noted that the products were not distributed to the entire public, but rather in a dedicated stand clearly identified with the name of the “Missouri Abortion Fund”.
As the father of a daughter, I am horrified by this.
Olivia Rodrigo passed out an abortifacient at her concert in St. Louis last night.
This was sponsored by the “Missouri Abortion Fund.”
Many of her fans are CHILDREN.
Abortion hurts women.
Physical damage of course, but also… https://t.co/PYBQqJTqw5
— Bill Eigel (@BillEigel) March 13, 2024
This is not the first time that the American has taken a public position in favor of women's freedom to control their bodies.
After the Supreme Court's change of heart in June 2022, she presented herself at the Glastonbury festival (United Kingdom) by dedicating one of her songs “to the five members of the Supreme Court who showed us that, in the end, They didn’t care about freedom.”