A previous Live Action News article featured 8 songs about abortion that many people may not have suspected actually included this theme — even from musical artists who espouse pro-abortion views. Now, here are 7 more songs about abortion that may surprise you:
“Sara,” by Fleetwood Mac
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 29: Don Henley and inductee Stevie Nicks perform at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony – Show at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
Stevie Nicks, one of the vocalists for rock band Fleetwood Mac, had an abortion, which she said she owed her success to.
“If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,” she said. “There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs… I would have had to walk away.”
She chose abortion so she could continue with her career, but the song “Sara” is about the child she aborted. “Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara,” she said in a 2014 interview with Billboard.
Drowning
In the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it’s gone
It doesn’t matter what for
When you build your house
Then call me home
“Giving You Back,” by Robyn
Swedish singer Robyn had an abortion at some point in her life, which she sang about on her second album — which she said is why the album wasn’t successful in the United States. “You can’t really talk about stuff like that in America, or you couldn’t at the time,” she told the New York Times. “Not if you were an 18-year-old pop star.”
Though the singer seems to still support abortion, the lyrics to her song make clear the pain she experiences after the abortion. “With you in me I was beautiful / Two months of joy, before the impossible,” she sings. “Every second I long for the day / When the time is right, when there’s no wrong / When you come back, come back to stay.”
“Bad Religion,” by Godsmack
Godsmack is, notably, a rock band that one wouldn’t think of as pro-life. Yet vocalist Sully Erna is a practicing Wiccan, and in the fourth single from their debut album, the band spoke out against abortion. “‘Bad Religion’ is anti-abortion. You don’t even know me, yet you’re deciding to kill me?” he said. “Look, I’m here. I’m alive inside you. I can’t be ignored.”
Take a deep breath, I’m alive
Can you feel me, I’m alive inside of you
Agony creeps up behind you
It’s a bad religion, from a broken nation
“The Future,” by Leonard Cohen
Cohen’s song about the destruction of civilization includes the destruction of children. In it, he urges society to repent, but also warns that the future is murderous.
“Give me back the Berlin wall / Give me Stalin and St Paul / Give me Christ / or give me Hiroshima,” he sings. “Destroy another fetus now / We don’t like children anyhow / I’ve seen the future, baby: / it is murder.”
“The Problem,” by Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell
The pro-abortion singer/songwriter duets with her husband to show a couple discussing having an abortion in “The Problem.” Proceeds from the song went towards the Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama abortion organization, and she released the song on International Safe Abortion Day. She made it clear that she wanted to be in favor of abortion — but the song still betrays the emotions behind the decision.
And no one has to know
The scars won’t even show
At least that’s what I’ve heard
No bigger than a baby bird
No bigger than a baby bird
No bigger than a baby bird
No bigger than a baby bird
Do you think God still sees me?
Coming out of this twilight sleep
I’m not sure who I am
Staring into my empty hands
“Red Rag Top,” by Tim McGraw
Country superstar Tim McGraw recorded a song written by Jason Sandbrink White, which White described as a song he didn’t intend to make a political statement. “I guess it’s fair to say that, yeah, it’s a song that has an abortion in it, but it’s certainly not an ‘abortion song,'” White said. “Really, I was trying to tell a story about a relationship that didn’t work out, period.”
In the song, a couple has an abortion, which rips their relationship apart. “And life was fast and the world was cruel / We were young and wild,” McGraw sings. “We decided not to have a child / So we did what we did and we tried to forget.”
“Third Planet,” by Modest Mouse
In their song “Third Planet,” rock band Modest Mouse seems to allude to abortion by repeatedly discussing a couple who used to be three, but now are only two.
“A third had just been made, and we were swimming in the water,” they sing. “Didn’t know then, was it a son was it a daughter […] Reminding you we used to be three and not just two.”
