Olivia Rodrigo performs on the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 25, 2022, in Glastonbury, England.
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Olivia Rodrigo performs on the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 25, 2022, in Glastonbury, England.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s voice is loud and clear on the place she stands. The singer’s group labored in partnership with native advocacy teams at hand out free emergency contraceptive tablets and condoms at Tuesday’s present in St. Louis.
The transfer, throughout Rodrigo’s “Guts” world tour, is a part of the singer’s Fund 4 Good initiative, which goals to make sure “an equitable and simply future for all ladies, women and folks searching for reproductive well being freedom.”
The advocacy teams arrange tables exterior the live performance with pamphlets of knowledge and sources.
“It was our determination to deliver the emergency contraception, which we all the time do once we desk,” stated Stephanie Kraft Sheley, venture director of Right By You, one of many Missouri-based advocacy teams. “It wasn’t essentially one thing [Olivia’s team] requested us to do.”
A portion of the proceeds from all ticket gross sales from every leg of the tour in North America goes towards the National Network of Abortion Funds, a community of 100 funds that assist individuals search abortion entry. The Missouri teams included Right By You and the Missouri Abortion Fund.
One fan created a thread on social media of the native NGOs Rodrigo has partnered with in every present she’s accomplished up to now.
Rodrigo has been vocal about reproductive well being care rights up to now. After the Supreme Court dominated in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, she joined Lily Allen to sing “F*** You” on the Glastonbury Music Festival, dedicating the efficiency to a few of the justices.
“I’m devastated and terrified. So many ladies and so many women are going to die due to this,” Rodrigo stated onstage on the time. “I needed to dedicate this subsequent music to the 5 members of the Supreme Court who’ve confirmed us that on the finish of the day, they really do not give a s*** about freedom.”
After the Supreme Court ruling, Missouri turned one in every of dozens of states to ban abortion, with restricted exceptions.
“I feel it is laborious for people that are not residing in banned states to know the disaster that that is creating throughout the maternal and perinatal well being panorama, not simply round abortion,” Sheley stated. “And so it is it is actually important to see this type of help.”
Emergency contraceptive morning-after tablets, that are completely different from abortion tablets, assist forestall being pregnant earlier than it begins by stopping or delaying ovulation.
Some tablets — together with Plan B — are bought with out a prescription at numerous shops and pharmacies, and might value as much as $50 in some circumstances.
“To purchase particularly a model title emergency contraception off the cabinets in shops may be very costly, so the truth that we had been giving it to people without spending a dime … they positively acquired it very properly and had been tremendous grateful and excited,” Sheley stated.
According to KFF polling final yr, a 3rd of adults say they’re “uncertain” whether or not emergency contraceptive tablets are authorized of their state although the tablets are at present authorized in all U.S. states.