*Nearly 140 musicians have signed a new letter supporting Planned Parenthood’s new initiative #BandsOffMyBody.
Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Lady Gaga, Halsey, John Legend, Demi Lovato, Beck, G-Eazy, HAIM, Sara Bareilles, Troye Sivan, Macklemore, Megan Thee Stallion, Miley Cyrus, Kacey Musgraves, Carole King, Hayley Kiyoko, Bon Iver, Dua Lipa, and more have joined forces to show their support for the largest abortion provider in America, Complex reports.
“Freedom is at the foundation of music,” the letter reads. “Access to sexual and reproductive health care is about that same freedom. Because no one is free unless they control their own body.”
Margaret Sanger, founder of the organization, was a eugenicist who believed Black people “should be exterminated” now more than 49 years after her death, 78% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in urban communities.
“Sweeping bans on access to safe, legal abortion are stripping away our freedom,” the letter continues. “Now is the time to band together and say keep your bans off our bodies.”
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US Friends: 25 MILLION. That’s how many women live in a state where abortion could be outlawed if Roe is overturned. Join me & Planned Parenthood and tell politicians: get your #BansOffMyBody. Text BANSOFF to 22422 to sign the petition. @ppfa @ppact https://t.co/skIzjBgcyG pic.twitter.com/wIxEaDCiXb
— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) August 24, 2019
The “Bands Together, Bans Off” campaign “aims to raise awareness of the devastating restrictions on abortion that have swept across the country over the past few years,” billboard.com writes. The goal is to get half a million signatures on an online petition supporting abortion by the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, 2020.
“Abortion access and reproductive health and rights are under attack like never before, and we need everyone to fight back,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting president/CEO. “These bans do not represent the will of the American people, which is why so many powerful, diverse voices are speaking out against them.”
The nonprofit will be on hand at JAY-Z’s Made in America Festival in Philadelphia on Labor Day and Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival on September 14th and 15th.
Read the full letter via the Twitter embed above.
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