The announcement was thunderous.
While on tour, on the London Stadium stage on June 24, Billie Joe Armstrong, singer of the punk-rock band Green Day, declared that he wanted to give up his American nationality to settle in the United Kingdom.
The reason: to mark its disapproval of the revocation of the right to abortion decided, the same day, by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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"
There's too much bullshit in the world to go back to this miserable fucking country.
I'm not kidding, you're going to hear a lot about me in the next few days,"
he told the crowd before chanting
"F*ck America
," reported on his BFMTV site.
By revoking its landmark “Roe v.
Wade”, which since 1973 guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion, the majority of its judges considering it today “totally unfounded”, the Supreme Court of the United States aroused anger, dejection and indignation.
Both in the street and with many popular and committed stars.
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“I am absolutely terrified that we are here, that after so many decades of fighting for women's right to their own body, today's decision deprives us of it,”
reacted in a statement .
communicated the singer Taylor Swift.
“It is completely unbearable and disheartening to have to try to explain to my 11-year-old daughter why we live in a world where women's rights are disintegrating before our eyes,”
Mariah Carey also moved.
Teenage pop idol Billie Eilish said during her performance at Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Friday:
"Today is a very dark day for women in America... It's unbearable to me. to think about it."
As soon as the decision was announced, a handful of states took the opportunity to immediately ban pregnancy terminations on their soil.
The states of Missouri, South Dakota and Georgia closed their doors one after the other, while California and New York pledged to defend access to abortions on their territory.
