5 Abortion Stories Turned into Songs: Nicki Minaj, Dido and More

Nicki Minaj/Sinead O’Connor/Dido. Photos: DFree/ Dariusz Majger/ Featureflash Photo Agency (Shutterstock)

World Day of Action for Access to Legal and Safe Abortion -o The day of decriminalization and legalization of abortion is September 28.

Although this practice is decriminalized in Mexico, this is not always the case in our country; much less than in the rest of the world.

Artists like Nicki Minaj, Sinead O’Connor and Dido wrote songs demonstrating the complexity of abortion, as well as the conditions in which people choose to practice it. Here we give you a choice of roles to think about as no two situations are the same:

1. “Anything Goes,” Nicki Minaj

Rape remained open to abortion; and he talked about the situation there mixtapes

“Autobiography” (2008) and “Anything Goes” (2014).

“She was a teenager. This has been the hardest thing since then. It would be contradictory to decide who I am not. pro-choice. No list. I didn’t want to offer them to the child,” he said. rolling stone about a procedure that was performed when he was a student. She is currently the mother of a son and her father is Kenneth Petty.

2. My Special Child, Sinead O’Connor

Another singer who wrote about her experience of abortion was falecide Sinead O’Connor, who, in “My Special Child” (1991), spoke of the deep confusion she chose not to end after breaking up with her partner in 1990. in the case of the mother of four and Abuela, one who breaks the stereotype that someone who has an abortion will not want to have children.

3. “Isobel”, Dido

Dido hand wrote this thread which says about a teenager “please note that if you are a teenager you are definitely younger than your age and there is a certain type of sexual coercion” that is keeping you from traveling to Ireland to get an abortion. .

The song was released in 1999 and abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018, so the story of traveling to other countries to have the procedure can make many women feel identified.

4. “Illegal”, But Te Wa Gustar

In this role, Uruguayans talk about the hypocrisy of Latin American society regarding abortion.

5. “Cookware and Candy Bars,” Stone Temple Pilots

In this 1994 theme, Scott Weiland sings about respecting his partner’s decision to choose to have an abortion instead of having a child. “What I ask for is what we ask for (What I wanted is what we wanted) / What we ask is what she asks (What we wanted is what she wanted),” says the topic.

“When we have an abortion, it is a painful experience. It was a difficult decision for both of us,” the singer told VH1.

Where else are there songs that tell stories about abortion?

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