Olivia Rodrigo, charismatic preacher for the abortion movement

The Instagram video opens with text on the screen: “Learning that nearly 30 Planned Parenthood health centers have closed since President Trump signed a law ‘defunding’ Planned Parenthood.” Then, pop star Olivia Rodrigo appears, mouthing along to her song “My Way,” dancing with a group of women, as the text switches to “But we’ll never stop fighting for sexual and reproductive health care!!!” Planned Parenthood posted this to Instagram on August 4. The same day, a second set of clips went up: Rodrigo touring a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood facility, then answering some questions with a Planned Parenthood employee, telling the camera she does not think you need “a PhD” to know women should control their own bodies, and separately describing the abortion drug mifepristone as “very safe.”

Instagram is a social media platform used heavily by teen girls who make up a real share of Rodrigo’s fanbase. Every movement needs someone willing to carry the message to the masses. Planned Parenthood has found its evangelist, and she has 42 million Instagram followers.

Rodrigo directed a portion of her 2023 Guts concert tour proceeds to a foundation she started called Fund 4 Good. The fund supports reproductive freedom (a nice way for the left to say abortions), girls education, and preventing gender-based violence. The group has donated more than $2 million to organizations around the world.

Rodrigo is a true believer in the church of abortion.

On August 29, she headlined her music festival, Daisy Chain Fields, with each performer, including Chappell Roan, Doechii, and Stevie Nicks, donating their time. The net proceeds from the event were donated to 10 organizations, including Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

In 2025, Planned Parenthood gave Rodrigo its Catalyst of Change award. She used the speech to thank the crowds of young girls who fill her shows, then praised Planned Parenthood:

It’s a privilege to be here tonight to support an organization that, despite countless obstacles, continues to show up with compassion, hope, and dignity for women. My greatest wish is that through organizations like Planned Parenthood and the action of everyday citizens, no woman will need to sacrifice her dreams, her health, or humanity because of restrictive laws or lack of resources.

Rodrigo’s relationship with the pro-abortion movement has already gone further than ads and award shows. During the 2023 Guts tour, the National Network of Abortion Funds set up tables at nearly every North American stop, from Nashville to St. Louis to St. Paul, handing out free Plan B pills, along with condoms, lubrication, and cards offering help finding abortion services.

It was a crowd full of teenagers, but all of this was legal. Plan B has been sold over the counter nationwide with no age restriction and no prescription required since 2013. No ID, no questions asked. The backlash was fast, and Rodrigo’s team eventually pulled the tables, not because it was inappropriate in principle, but because, as organizer Jade Hurley told Variety, “children are present at the concerts,” an admission that the organizers knew exactly who was in the crowd.

Rodrigo is not the first young celebrity to pioneer abortion evangelism but does seem to have the biggest pulpit yet.

Planned Parenthood has employed a staffer for pop star outreach since the mid-1990s. Her name is Caren Spruch, and according to her account in the Washington Post, she started by asking bands such as Santana and the Dave Matthews Band if Planned Parenthood could set up a table at their concerts. By the late 2010s, the strategy had scaled into a full campaign called Bans Off Our Bodies. Around 140 musicians signed on, including Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande.

Advocates for Youth runs a parallel operation called Abortion Out Loud, recruiting what it calls “youth abortion storytellers,” plus an Abortion On Campus project that pushes colleges to fund off-campus abortion trips and stock abortion medication on-site.

Advocates for Youth even trains what it calls “abortion doulas” for young people aged 14-24. This is propaganda that belongs in an Orwell novel. As the Cleveland Clinic notes, a “doula” is  “a trained professional who supports you before, during and after you’ve had a baby.”

Britney  Spears is one pop princess we probably won’t be seeing in this abortion evangelism for young women. She had an abortion at nineteen years old, revealing the secret twenty-three years later in her 2023 memoir. Spears stated she wanted to keep the baby. Her boyfriend at the time, fellow performer Justin Timberlake, did not.

“He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young,” she wrote. “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.” Spears called it “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”

There is nothing empowering about being coerced into an abortion by your boyfriend, or convinced into one by a decades-long indoctrination campaign backed by the most popular entertainers in the country. There are women having abortions that may never have happened if they did not have a partner in their ear telling them to get rid of it, a message you likely won’t hear about from the supposedly pro-woman abortion lobby or Olivia Rodrigo. It is similarly difficult to find the abortion cheerleaders cheering so enthusiastically about the life-preserving option of placing an unwanted baby up for adoption.

Planned Parenthood did not stumble into Rodrigo. It has spent decades building a pulpit for exactly this moment, one concert table at a time, and she is simply the latest to stand behind it. That message leaves no room for a girl who might want to wait to become sexually active, or for a mother who might want a say in whether her young daughter learns about sex from a folding table at a concert.

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The business model of the abortion industrial complex Inside the abortion pill war rocking America

Source: https://capitalresearch.org/article/olivia-rodrigo-charismatic-preacher-for-the-abortion-movement/