A clip of two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks saying that her abortion was necessary to her career success is making the rounds on X. Christians are decrying it and even pointing out that other successful female artists contemporary with Nicks had children in less than ideal circumstances.
“I got pregnant, and it was like why? I have an IUD. I am totally protected. I have a great gynecologist. How come this has happened?” said Nicks in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in October 2024, describing her past pregnancy. “I’m like, this can’t be happening. Fleetwood Mac is three years in, and it’s big, and we’re going into our third album. It was like, oh no no no no no no. It would have destroyed Fleetwood Mac.”
“This is a must watch! Stevie Nicks speaks openly about the abortion that allowed her to continue her career at the height of Fleetwood Mac’s rise,” said the Center for Reproductive Rights on Nov. 7 in a post featuring a clip of Nicks’ interview. “She makes it plain: access to abortion made her life, her art, and her voice possible.”
“Abortion didn’t make your voice possible, Stevie Nicks—it silenced another’s forever,” responded Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, a nonprofit dedicated to ending abortion. “No career, no fame, no art is worth the life of a child.”
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“A century from now, people will look back in shock at how our culture regarded unborn children,” said Dr. Ed Stetzer, editor-in-chief of Outreach Magazine and dean of the Talbot School of Theology, also responding to the clip.
Stevie Nicks: ‘Be Mad at Me. I Don’t Care.’
Stevie Nicks is a Grammy Award-winner and Grammy Award-nominee who is the first woman to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as part of Fleetwood Mac and once as a solo artist.
In Nicks’ interview with CBS, she discussed her song, “The Lighthouse,” which was released the month before the interview. The music video for the song shows shots of pro-choice protesters and includes a sign that says, “Abortion is a human right.” One part of the video shows a woman who is far along in her pregnancy and has the words, “My choice,” written on her belly. The lyrics to the song say in part:
I have my scars, you have yours
Don’t let them take your power
Don’t leave it alone in the final hours
They’ll take your soul, they’ll take your power
Don’t close your eyes and hope for the best
The dark is out there
The light is going fast
Until the final hours
Your life’s forever changed
And all the rights that you had yesterday
Are taken away
And now you’re afraid
You should be afraid
