Posted on 10/19/2020 4:01:10 AM PDT by xomething
A two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has asserted that the world would have been deprived of the happiness and healing her singing career produced if she had not had an abortion four decades ago.
Legendary singer Stevie Nicks said in a recent interview with The Guardian that if she hadn’t aborted the child she conceived with Eagles singer Don Henley in 1979, she's “pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac.”
“There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly,” said Nicks.
“And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away,” said the now-72-year-old singer. “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,” she claimed. “There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world’s mission.”
“Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight,” said Nicks, who declared that recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was her hero. “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.”
Many were appalled by Nicks’ revelation, and disagreed with her assessment that her career was more important than loving and caring for the child she aborted.
Stevie Nicks says Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t have become what it did without her abortion and that her music was more important for the world.
Kylie Jenner got pregnant at 19, had her baby, and still became the world’s youngest billionaire.
You don’t need abortion to be successful— Alex Clark ���������� (@yoalexrapz) October 16, 2020
“Justifying murder. What da!?” tweeted talk show host Jesse Lee Peterson.
Justifying murder. What da!? Not cool.
Stevie Nicks: There‘d Be No Fleetwood Mac ‘If I Had Not Had That Abortion‘ https://t.co/pqXSKeWxHA via @BreitbartNews— Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) October 15, 2020
And that's the problem with our society — children being viewed as a burden, as something that will hinder you from achieving your goals.
Children and success are NOT mutually exclusive. (See Amy Coney Barrett as the perfect example).https://t.co/n0gqVS0DMM— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) October 15, 2020
Nicks, who reportedly has had a total of four abortions, is not without regret.
“To give up four [babies] is to give up a lot that would be here now,” admitted Nicks in a 1992 Vox Magazine interview.
“So that really bothers me, a lot, and really breaks my heart. But they’re gone, so…” she continued. “But I couldn’t because I was too busy. And I had all these commitments.”
“Some women have no interest in becoming mothers, but that isn’t the case with Stevie Nicks,” explained National Review’s Kyle Smith.
“She did want to be a mother, very badly,” wrote Smith. “Witness the gently horrifying soft-rock classic ‘Sara,’ the only rock song I can think of in which the singer muses about having actually killed another human being. Neither Bob Marley nor Eric Clapton really shot the sheriff, but Nicks did kill Sara, and that’s what infuses the song with a delirium of regret.”
I’m glad she has the decency to feel some regret now. In her twilight years she will not have four grown children to love her and look after her. She will not have any grandchildren they might have produced to surround her with love and laughter in her final days.
Sad.
Nicks, who reportedly has had a total of four abortions, is not without regret.
FOUR - Murders -— WOW.
She was an drug head alcoholic ... who knows what life style those kids would have been born into — she should have been more responsible and accountable for her actions.
Since she wasn’t it - she does not have the ground to preach to the rest of us on what decisions we need to make.
So many fails in 1 place!
One of their best songs...”Oh Well”, was long before the ladies arrived.
One of these days scientists are going to figure out what causes pregnancy, so it can be prevented before you have to resort to this.
So, she created music. Her child might have developed a cure for cancer. But we’ll never know will we?
“One of their best songs...”Oh Well”, was long before the ladies arrived.”
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Absolutely agree, and my fav from before the Buckingham/Nicks era is “Hypnotized”. I think Christine McVie does some vocals in that. Talent-wise Christine kicks Nicks’ butt.
I think the issue had more to do with the baby disrupting drug fueled partying than music.
And if your mother had aborted you, there’d be no Stevie Nicks.
What would the world have done without Fleetwood Mac?
From the article:
Nicks, who reportedly has had a total of four abortions, is not without regret.
“To give up four [babies] is to give up a lot that would be here now,” admitted Nicks in a 1992 Vox Magazine interview.
“So that really bothers me, a lot, and really breaks my heart. But they’re gone, so…” she continued. “But I couldn’t because I was too busy. And I had all these commitments.”
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Just, wow. Sad. In more ways than one.
Anecdotal but someone told me they knew some fans of hers who saw her in some store and approached her for an autograph and she lost it going on a rant. Maybe she was having a bad day (she probably had a lot of those according to this article) but the old adage never meet your heroes comes to mind.
My opinion of her has tanked.
“But I couldn’t because I was too busy. And I had all these commitments.”
She was so busy she couldn’t practice one of the many methods of birth control. That’s pretty darn busy, stupid, and (ultimately) evil.
Fleetwood Mac’s success required human sacrifice? Interesting and shockingly honest.
I’ll be sure to never download any Fleetwood Mac songs. I don’t think I ever have. I won’t now.
Wow. I don’t know how the world could have survived without “Fleetwood Mac.”
What a laughably stupid and pathetic woman.
Your 70’s crap group is ALREADY forgotten and will be COMPLETELY forgotten in a couple of decades by even your most ardent handful of fans.
Your babies would have lived a lifetime, and most likely have produced grandchildren which would have carried on your line. Far more important, IMHO.
Enjoy being buried with your money, you stupid bitch.
I always thought she sounded like the Coroner Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz when she sings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMsXBJ0Y98
In her solo career she had a song titled Sometimes a Bitch (the lyrics might be autobiographical).....maybe more full time than occasional.
Wow! What a self centered little smacked ass that vile bitch is.......
Thry were a far better band before she joined.
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