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Olivia Rodrigo made free emergency contraception out there to concertgoers throughout her “Guts” tour cease in Missouri on Tuesday as a part of her ongoing Fund 4 Good initiative.
As seen on social media, free emergency contraception, condoms and stickers with assets on accessing abortion care had been made out there contained in the St. Louis venue the place Rodrigo carried out for concertgoers to take.
The contraceptives had been offered by Right By You, an area group that helps younger individuals entry reproductive care. The Missouri Abortion Fund partnered with Proper By You to assist hand out the merchandise, in keeping with a video the group posted to their Instagram web page that confirmed the desk they arrange with the assorted merchandise they handed out.
CNN has beforehand reported that abortion is banned in Missouri, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Rodrigo shared on her Instagram Tales on Tuesday {that a} portion of the proceeds from her St. Louis live performance will profit each organizations. She additionally introduced on her Instagram Tales on Wednesday {that a} portion of the ticket gross sales from that day’s live performance in Omaha would profit the Nebraska Abortion Useful resource group and the Iowa Abortion Entry Fund as a part of the continued initiative.
The social media pictures confirmed textual content studying, “Funding abortion? It’s a good suggestion, proper?” which is phrased in the identical manner as Rodrigo’s track “Unhealthy Thought, Proper?” off of the “Guts” album.
The hassle to offer reproductive assets over the course of Rodrigo’s tour is a part of Fund 4 Good, which is a “world initiative dedicated to constructing an equitable and simply future for all girls, ladies and other people looking for reproductive well being freedom,” in keeping with the inspiration’s website.
A portion of the proceeds from all “Guts” tour ticket gross sales will profit the Fund 4 Good, a LiveNation news release introduced in September.
CNN has reached out to Rodrigo for additional remark.
Abortion restrictions in states together with Missouri and Nebraska stem from the Supreme Courtroom overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, holding that there isn’t a longer a federal constitutional proper to an abortion. It was essentially the most consequential Supreme Courtroom determination in many years and has reworked the panorama of girls’s reproductive well being in America.
Rodrigo was acting at UK music pageant Glastonbury the identical weekend the choice was introduced in 2022 and told the audience, “I’m devastated and terrified that so many ladies and so many women are going to die due to this.”
The singer’s “Guts” tour throughout america, Canada and Europe kicked off in February and runs till August 14.