It looks like if you're pro-choice, you're welcome under Rihanna's umbrella. The Barbadian beauty isn't the most outspoken celeb when it comes to politics, but you don't want to get on her bad side.
It looks like if you're pro-choice, you're welcome under Rihanna's umbrella. The Barbadian beauty isn't the most outspoken celeb when it comes to politics, but you don't want to get on her bad side.
Ever since Alabama passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law, it's all anybody can talk about.
There are few, if any, more polarizing subjects in American than abortion, and Alabama's law goes to greater lengths to restrict access to abortions than any law in living memory.
The law expressly prohibits abortions with exemptions only in cases in which the mother's life is threatened.
Abortions are outlawed even if the mother is a minor who has been raped or a victim of incest. Doctors who perform abortions face penalties of up to 99 years in prison.
It will almost certainly be delayed even longer for court challenges, which is heartening.
Especially given that other states, including Ohio, Georgia, and Missouri have passed greatly restrictive abortion laws as well, and many other states also have legislation pending.
Celebrities have struck back hard against the states passing (or considering) these bans, with many refusing to bring their business to those states in protest.
They aren't playing nice.
Riri did not mince her words. She wrote:
"take a look. these are the idiots making decisions for WOMEN in America. Governor Kay Ivey...SHAME ON YOU!!!!"
Just check out all the A-listers who liked her post: Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Jennifer Lopez, Gigi and Bella Hadid, Cara Delevigne, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Saldana, Justin Timberlake, the list goes on.
"It was one of the most horrific experiences I have ever gone through," she wrote. "I still have nightmares about it. I was alone and helpless. When I think about the fact that women might have to face abortions in even worse conditions than I did because of new laws, my stomach turns."
The Good Place star wrote on Twitter that she had an abortion and doesn't regret it.
"I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made," she wrote.
"Both for me, and for the baby I didn't want, and wasn't ready for, emotionally, psychologically and financially. So many children will end up in foster homes. So many lives ruined. So very cruel."
Encouraged by actress and writer Busy Philipps, who tweeted to say that most people know someone who has had an abortion, women have been moved to tell their stories under the hashtag #YouKnowMe.
As replies to those 25 men in Alabama go, you can't ask for much more powerful and honest than that.