Lorde speaks out on abortion rights during LA show

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Lorde spoke out about abortion rights during her show in LA last night (May 5).It comes after the US ​​Supreme Court’s private vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v.

Wade decision, which made abortion legal on a federal level in the US, was revealed.Earlier this week (May 2) Politico published a leaked draft opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito which argued that Roe v.

Wade was “egregiously wrong from the start”, adding that “it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives”.Draft opinions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before they are shared, so the court’s decision is not final.

If the court goes through with overturning the landmark case, however, abortion would no longer be protected as a federal right in the US, and each state would be able to decide individually whether to restrict or ban abortion.During her performance in LA last night, Lorde delivered a lengthy speech about the possible loss of abortion rights in the US.“Like so many of you, I’ve been sickened and heartbroken this week by the news that there are some people who think that our bodies are not our own,” she said before performing her ‘Melodrama’ track ‘Hard Feelings’.“And I still don’t have the words to talk about this with you.