Stevie Nicks Got an Abortion

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So recently, Stevie Nicks told the world that she had an abortion in 1979, and if she hadn’t, it would have been the end of Fleetwood Mac. Well, maybe that’s not quite true. It might have just been the end of a Fleetwood Mac with her. Big-name rock groups switch leads all the time and survive. Some actually do quite well. See Journey, See Van Halen.

Anyway, Ms. Nicks told Rolling Stone that she had several reasons for getting an abortion back then. For instance, she claimed that it would have been very stressful at the time working in the studio while pregnant. I suppose it would have been. A great many women perform in the workplace while in that condition, but everybody is different. Some handle stress better than others, and each person has to make that call for themselves. But when you have sex, you might get a baby, and if you get a baby, you’re responsible for it no matter how bulletproof you’ve tried to make the birth control process. I guess it all depends on what’s more important to you — your kiddo or your career. Sometimes, like pro-abortion Catholic politicians, you simply can’t serve both masters, and if you’re straight with yourself, you understand that.

However, some of the other reasons she gave for getting an abortion make me scratch my head. She said that given her past relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, it would have been very awkward to work with him in the band while pregnant with Don Henley’s LoveChild. I can imagine.

“Oh, boys….don’t y’all fight over l’il ol me. I’ll just go get this matter taken care of right quick…..Hold my beer, my pills, my coke, my syringe.” 

(I had a buddy in the 80s who worked at Kansas City International Airport as a SkyCap when Stevie Nicks came through one day. Said she came up to him and grabbed her crotch with one hand and made the pinkie/thumb Rock On sign with the other. Party on, Wayne.…I guess we all have our priorities.)

Or how about the other reason, like why she didn’t want to have the baby and employ a nanny?

“I am not the kind of woman who would hand my baby over to a nanny, not in a million years…”  as if putting your kiddo in the care of a caregiver is a worse fate than destroying them in the first place. Can’t figure that one out. Or how it was better to snuff somebody out because it would be worse if they’d been born just to have their feelings hurt all the time. How virtuous. 

So, she put herself out there in this interview, which means people out here will have thoughts on it. So I’m gonna share some of mine. I find that people who use reasons like these are trying to appear Good for doing what they’ve done. And I find that disingenuous, self-serving, and weak.

If I hadn’t aborted this baby, I would have robbed the world of Fleetwood Mac. Without me, Mick, Lindsey, Christine, et al. would have immediately given up music and returned to their former jobs as waiters and salesmen. If I hadn’t aborted this baby, it would have been really, like you know, like, uncomfortable working with Lindsey while I was making sweet, sweet love to Don, so to spare everybody the Great Big Awkward…..If I hadn’t aborted this baby, I’d have had to let a nanny raise her, and I am simply not that kind of Mother because then I would be an uncaring Mother…and speaking of being uncaring, if I hadn’t aborted this baby I would have created a child that would forever be getting its feelings hurt, and I couldn’t ever do that to a baby.

So I am virtuous, and I am good, and I did it for you, Baby, so you wouldn’t have a miserable life. In fact, I even named one of my little songs in your memory. There…feel better? I know I do.

I guess you can at least credit Nicks for being borderline honest, although she kind of sugarcoats it a little bit, but she’s essentially saying, “Hey, a baby is inconvenient right now, and I don’t wanna deal with one, so…Pouf!” And I don’t understand how anybody can arrive at that point unless they can square it with themselves first that nobody is getting destroyed in the process. Is it a person? Is it a person yet? If I abort, does a human being get killed in the process? Maybe it’s better if I just don’t think about these things too much…

I don’t think most consider these questions, or at least consider them very deeply, when they decide to support abortion. If you look at the Alan Guttmacher Institute’s surveys of reasons why women get abortions (AGI is the clearinghouse for Planned Parenthood’s data on the subject), 99 percent are reasons of convenience. This study is from 20 years ago, and for some reason, they have not seen fit to provide anything more recent. However, another study from 2013 mirrors these findings and, in my opinion, this probably has not changed much since. 

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So, Stevie (and I have always liked her music) decided to get an abortion because a baby just got in the way of her career. And if you don’t believe a pregnancy carries a human being, you can do that. It’s just a skin tag that can be picked off or a toenail that can be clipped. But to decide whether or not to get an abortion, don’t you have to weigh it against something more substantial than things that bring you convenience? If not, then it wouldn’t be the big deal that it is. You wouldn’t bother to tell Rolling Stone that you got a manicure in 1979, but you bothered to tell them you got an abortion. Why?

Because it’s a controversial issue, and it’s a controversial issue because pro-abortion people know deep down that they could be destroying a person when they get one. If they didn’t, they’d never make up dumb terms like Reproductive Justice or Pro-Choice to sell the idea because the word “abortion” just sounds too…brutal.