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Cyndi Lauper Inspired By ‘Incredible’ Late Mother To Launch Abortion Fund

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Cyndi Lauper is standing up for choice. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and federal abortion protections, the singer is launching the Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights Fund. READ MORE: Cyndi Lauper Pays Tribute To Late Mom Catrine Who Starred In ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ “If you don’t have control over your own body, how can you be anything but a second-class citizen?

Now, the government has control over your body — not you. What should be a private medical decision between you and your doctor is now a government decision,” Lauper told People. “So, this is a big issue for me.” The 69-year-old also talked about her own relationship to feminism and how the name of the fund was inspired by signs she saw at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. “When most women would say, ‘What are you, a feminist?’ And people would go, ‘Well, I’m really a humanist.’ I would say, ‘Yeah, I’m a feminist.

I burned my training bra,'” she said. “Then in 2017, I saw these young girls with these ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights’ signs, and I felt like, ‘You know what?

It was all worth it.’ The little ones, they heard me.” Looking back on her 1983 classic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, Lauper admits she didn’t realize how inspiring it would be to fans. “It wasn’t political, but in a lot of ways it was, because how dare I say that women should come together and be joyful?” she said. “When I used to go on tour, I actually saw grandmothers, mothers and daughters — three generations.

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