Olivia Rodrigo has apparently misplaced a few of her Guts.
The Grammy-winner’s staff has reversed course on a plan to distribute contraceptives throughout her Guts Tour, Selection experiences.
Olivia Rodrigo.
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Simply days in the past, on March 12, attendees on the St. Louis cease of the tour had been handled to a Guts-branded package deal containing two containers of Julie — an emergency contraceptive that may stop being pregnant when taken inside 72 hours of unprotected intercourse — together with data on find out how to entry abortion care assets within the state.
The contraceptives and accompanying data had been out there at cubicles hosted by the Missouri Abortion Fund and Textual content Proper By You, a youth-focused hotline offering reproductive rights assets, since not less than March 8. Nevertheless, within the present political local weather the place reproductive rights are consistently underneath assault by conservative pundits and politicians, the seemingly innocuous act went viral after followers tweeted out the supplies, stirring up a fair proportion of reward and controversy.
Now, abortion funds are not allowed to distribute these supplies, a choice made reportedly by Rodrigo’s staff and relayed to the Nationwide Community of Abortion Funds. Jade Hurley, communications supervisor for the DC Abortion Fund, tells Selection the NNAF mentioned Rodrigo’s staff determined to halt distribution of contraceptive supplies as a result of “youngsters are current on the concert events.”
Reps for Rodrigo didn’t instantly reply to EW’s request for remark.
The 21-year-old singer kicked off her newest tour in February by launching the Fund 4 Good (a play on her single “Good 4 U”), which donated a portion of her Guts Tour proceeds to reproductive rights organizations such because the NNAF.
Rodrigo has usually used her platform to advocate help for ladies’s healthcare, expressing her outrage onstage after the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that protected a lady’s option to have an abortion, on the Glastonbury Pageant in 2022.
“I am devastated and terrified that so many ladies and so many ladies are going to die due to this,” she mentioned on the time, dedicating Lily Allen’s “F— You” to the 5 Justices on the Supreme Court docket who “confirmed us that on the finish of the day, they really do not give a s— about freedom.”
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