Olivia Rodrigo, who is an actor and a singer-songwriter, has continuously shown the world that she supports abortion rights and tries to expand awareness about reproductive health care in society.
On Friday, Feb. 23, right before the opening night of her ‘Guts’ Album world tour, she announced on social media that a portion of her income from tickets purchased for this tour would go to a charity she created called “Fund 4 Good” which will “directly support community-based nonprofits championing girls education and reproductive rights and preventing gender-based violence.” Rodrigo has partnered with the Nation Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) to give everyone the reproductive rights they deserve. NNAF is a non-profit organization that has 100 abortion funds across the country. Rodrigo says she is doing this because she wants to “help those impacted by healthcare barriers in getting the reproductive care they deserve.”
Rodrigo has always been supportive of reproductive rights. In June of 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, limiting access to abortions after almost 50 years. At this time, she was on her first world tour for her ‘Sour’ album. Shortly after she found out the news, she stopped one of her concerts in Washington D.C. saying “I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk about how heartbroken I am over the Supreme Court’s potential decision,” Rodrigo said, then continues to say “What a woman does with her body should never be in the hands of politicians, and I hope we can use our voices to protect the right to have a safe abortion, which is a right that so many people before us have worked so hard to get.”
On March 12, 2024, at her Guts world tour concert in Saint Louis, MO, people who attended her concerts were allowed to pick up packages that contained two packages of Julie, a brand of a morning-after pill, as well as pick-up condoms. However, this sparked a controversial topic of if Rodrigo should be giving these reproductive health tools to teenagers.
After this controversy, Rodrigo’s team and the NNAF decided they were going to stop handing them out at concerts because there were children present. Destini Spaeth, chair of the Prairie Abortion Fund who also had a booth at Rodrigo’s March 15 concert in St. Paul, MN., disagreed and that they should not stop because “There is something really positive about a 16- or 15-year-old having a Plan B and a few condoms in her dresser to use as she needs it.” She then goes on to explain how teenagers are not getting a strong or good enough sex education in their schools so they should have some knowledge of where to go to get better information and resources. “If the kids aren’t getting the education that they need in school, at least they can rely on reproductive health organizations in their communities to get that information and resources to them,” she said.
Olivia Rodrigo continues to fight for what is right and to help those in need for their women’s reproductive rights, education, violence and more.
