“If we don’t show up, there’s a good chance we’ll see a nationwide abortion ban, no exceptions,” the singer said ahead of crucial election day
A few days before On a crucial election day, Billie Eilish strongly encouraged her fans to vote and broke down the midterm election issues in a video the singer posted on Saturday.
“I want to explain why I’m voting this year and how important I think it is for you to vote,” Eilish said. “Our rights, our freedoms and our future are at stake, and if we don’t show up, there’s a good chance we’ll see a nationwide ban on abortion, no exceptions.”
The singer added: “They also want to take away our freedom to marry whoever we love, restrict the right to vote and enact laws that threaten the progress that needs to be made on climate change… It scares me. “
Since the start of her career, Eilish has long urged her fanbase to both register to vote and show up on Election Day, with the singer aligning herself with numerous organizations and campaigns (HeadCount, Planned Parenthood, Global Citizen’s Just Vote and iHeartMedia’s Why I’m Voter, to name a handful) over the past few years.
“I really couldn’t want to be less involved in politics; I’d literally rather do something other than talk about it,” Eilish said last summer, “It just comes to a certain point where you can’t ignore it and you can’t shut up. Especially with the platform I have, I don’t want to mess this up. So I think it’s really important that we all talk and talk, even if we’d rather die.
Eilish added on Saturday: “The only way to be sure of the future is to do it ourselves, which is why we have to vote on November 8 or before. Please promise me you will make a plan to vote. Let’s show them what our power looks like.