{"id":45498,"date":"2026-04-09T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45498"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:12:03","slug":"florence-the-machine-teams-with-abortion-giant-planned-parenthood-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45498","title":{"rendered":"Florence + the Machine Teams With Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood on Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singer Florence Welch has partnered with Planned Parenthood to advertise the abortion giant to fans who attend the next portion of the Florence + The Machine\u2019s ongoing tour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/florence-and-the-machine-teams-up-with-planned-parenthood-affiliates-to-reach-fans-at-u-s-tour-stops\">announced<\/a> the partnership on Monday and said that beginning on April, 8, more than a dozen of its affiliates will set up tables at multiple stops on the tour to talk with concertgoers about the kinds of \u201csexual and reproductive care\u201d its centers provide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPlanned Parenthood health centers are a lifeline for millions of people, and they are relentlessly attacked,\u201d Welch said in a statement. \u201cHaving access to a trusted provider is essential and also the difference between life and death. In this moment of uncertainty for our rights, I\u2019m proud to support Planned Parenthood and create space on my tour for them to connect people with the care and information they need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32550876\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram\/florencethemachine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North American leg of the band\u2019s tour is set to pick up that same day at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Billboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/florence-machine-planned-parenthood-tour-1236216102\/\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The tour is for the album \u201cEverybody Scream,\u201d which was released in October, and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, according to the report. Shortly before the release of the album, Welch opened up about having to undergo an emergency surgery in 2023 for an ectopic pregnancy, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/08\/ob-gyns-overturning-roe-has-no-impact-on-treating-miscarriages-ectopic-pregnancies\/\">not the same<\/a> as an elective abortion. Welch said she lost a fallopian tube in the process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/sep\/27\/florence-welch-sexism-screaming-lost-pregnancy-nearly-killed-her\">told<\/a> <em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0in September 2025. \u201cAnd I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The abortion giant has partnered with other musical artists besides Welch, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-planned-parenthood-champion-of-change-award-1235955418\/\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmf.com\/gracie-abrams-harry-styles-olivia-rodrigo-sign-im-for-planned-parenthood-new-york-times-ad\/\">Gracie Abrams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlso in 2025, Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion, Gracie Abrams, Stevie Nicks, Cyndi Lauper and numerous other artists signed a letter of support for Planned Parenthood in response to Trump enacting a number of policies restricting access to reproductive healthcare, slashing public health programs and removing legal protections for reproductive healthcare clinics,\u201d according to the report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/6a\/19\/6a191461-a0ad-4ea0-8118-aa9184c24a31\/digital-2025-ppfa-annualreport-c3.pdf\">released<\/a> its 2024-2025 annual report, indicating that it aborted a record-breaking 434,450 unborn babies in 2023-2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekat_hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@thekat_hamilton<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/08\/florence-the-machine-teams-with-abortion-giant-planned-parenthood-on-tour\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Florence Welch has partnered with Planned Parenthood to advertise the abortion giant to fans who attend the next portion of the Florence + The Machine\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}