We Have Abortion Rights to Thank for the Existence of Fleetwood Mac
Abortion rights have again become a top hot-button issue in this year's presidential election, especially as the vacant Supreme Court seat once occupied by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes a battleground for the future of Roe v. Wade.
The struggle for reproductive justice has been on Stevie Nicks's mind, too, as she revealed in a new interview with The Guardian. Indeed, without the freedom to choose, Nicks said that the world may have never known the musical phenomenon that is Fleetwood Mac.
"Abortion rights, that was really my generation's fight," she told the outlet, going on to criticize President Donald Trump's conservative Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. "If President Trump wins this election and puts the judge he wants in, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back-alley abortions."
Nicks underwent an abortion 1979, just two years after the band released its epochal Rumours and at the height of their fame. At the time, she was dating Don Henley, the singer from the Eagles.
"If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac," she said. "There's just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away."
She also reflected on the cultural significance of the band, adding, "And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people's hearts and make people so happy. And I thought: you know what? That's really important. There's not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world's mission."
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