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27 September 2024
Press
Back in 1973 in Texas a woman named Jane Roe filed a lawsuit against local district
attorney Henry Wade to gain the right to abortion as it was protected by the Constitution, but nonetheless forbidden in Texas and several other American states. She won the case but years later, in 2022 the Supreme Court overruled Roe, ending the constitutional right to abortion. A decision that caused/causes a huge shock as it crushed the reproductive
rights of women in the US.
Today former Fleetwood Mac heroine STEVIE NICKS shares a musical
statement about the issue with brand-new song THE LIGHTHOUSE .
Nicks: I wrote this song a few months after Roe v Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me,
it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me ~ explaining what the loss of Roe v Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.”
The Lighthouse is a vehement pro-reproductive rights anthem that
overwhelms on the chorus. Nicks‘s monumental voice lights in the middle.
“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
unless you stand up
and take it back
try to see the future
and get mad
It’s slippin’ through your fingers
you don’t have what you had
you don’t have much time
to get it back”
Wake up people,
support the right
of privacy for women
in the US and the whole
wide world.”
THE LIGHTHOUSE