Billie Eilish slams US Supreme Court abortion verdict
Washington [US], June 25: 20-year-old singer Billie Eilish spoke out strongly against the US Supreme Court verdict to end the constitutional right to abortion from her position on the stage at Glastonbury.
As per the sources, the youngest singer said in front of enormous crowd at the Pyramid Stage, "Today is a really, really dark day for women in the US. I'm just going to say that because I can't bear to think about it any longer."
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She also dedicated her song 'Your Power', to all those affected by the US verdict decision. A song about older men who take advantage of their position.
The youngest singer also became the reason for the top headlines because of her appearance on the Glastonbury stage against the verdict.
Another performer to protest the decision was folk star Phoebe Bridgers, who made her debut on the John Peel stage and slammed the old Supreme Court justices "who try to tell us what to do with our bodies," as per the sources.
The ruling reverses 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, which largely retained the right.
The ruling was announced by a majority of conservative justices on Friday and it upholds Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, which directly clashed with Roe's requirement that states permit abortion up to the point of fetal viability, around 24 weeks.
"The Court finds that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation's history and tradition," read the Court's announcement on Friday.
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Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of pregnant women's right to an abortion without undue government restrictions in the Roe v. Wade case, which was decided in 1973.
-PTC News
