Billie Eilish has spoken out strongly against the US Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion from her position on stage at Glastonbury.
The 20-year-old singer told the huge crowd outside the Pyramid Stage, “Today is a really, really dark day for women in the United States.
“I’m just going to say that because I can’t bear to think about it any longer.”
She then dedicated her song about older men who abuse their position, “Your Power,” to everyone affected by the decision announced earlier on Friday.
Eilish’s appearance at Glastonbury made her the youngest solo headliner in Festival history.
Another performer to protest the ruling was folk star Phoebe Bridgers, who got her start on the John Peel stage and criticized “old Supreme Court justices” who try to tell us what to do with our bodies.
The decision overturns 50 years of precedent since the landmark 1973 case that gave women in the United States the right under federal law to terminate a pregnancy, and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey — who largely upheld the law.
“The Court finds that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the Nation,” said Friday’s opinion, announced by the Court.
