Some of music’s biggest names have come forward to support Planned Parenthood’s Bans Off My Body, a campaign protesting abortion bans in the US.
If you’ve not been following the news over the last few months, then you may have missed that representatives for the US states of Alabama and Georgia have introduced new anti-abortion bills, effectively banning abortions at every stage of pregnancy and criminalising the procedure for doctors.
Needless to say, this has enraged commentators from all over the world, who have all come together to discuss how much of an affront this is to both the rights of women, and the pro-choice movement.
While musicians like Travis Scott have taken a stand by donating merch profits to the Planned Parenthood organisation while performing in Alabama, numerous others have now placed their support behind the new Bans Off My Body campaign.
Check out a Tweet from Tove Lo about the Planned Parenthood campaign:
To my friends and fans in the US. Our bodies are our own. If they are not, we can not be truly free. Or equal.
Join me & @PPFA @ppact — sign the petition by texting BANSOFF to 22422 & tell politicians to get their #BansOffMyBody: https://t.co/ESOFfq0Wti pic.twitter.com/5RmV7hLJs6— Tove Lo (@ToveLo) August 26, 2019
As Billboard reports, 136 artists including the Foo Fighters, Kacey Musgraves, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, and Lizzo have all supported the campaign, which aims to get half a million people to sign a petition opposing the implementation of these abortion laws.
“I’m proud to be standing up for Planned Parenthood as they fight for fair and equal access to reproductive rights,” Billie Eilish explained in a statement given to Billboard.
“We cannot live freely and move fully in the world when our basic right to access the reproductive health care we need is under attack. Every person deserves the right to control their body, their life and their future.”
“Abortion access and reproductive health and rights are under attack like never before, and we need everyone to fight back,” added Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting president/CEO, in a statement to Rolling Stone.
“These bans do not represent the will of the American people, which is why so many powerful, diverse voices are speaking out against them.”
Other artists to add their name to the campaign include Beck, The Distillers, The B-52s, Nine Inch Nails, Miley Cyrus, Queens Of The Stone Age, and even Australia’s Troye Sivan, showing that this is an issue not exclusive to Americans.
