{"id":2350649,"date":"2024-10-04T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stevie-nicks-abortion-song-is-a-cope-to-get-over-lives-she-took\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:43:22","slug":"stevie-nicks-abortion-song-is-a-cope-to-get-over-lives-she-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stevie-nicks-abortion-song-is-a-cope-to-get-over-lives-she-took\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Nicks&#8217; Abortion Song Is A Cope To Get Over Lives She Took"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstevie-nicks-abortion-song-is-a-cope-to-get-over-lives-she-took%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2350649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Stevie Nicks has released \u200ba new single titled \u201cThe Lighthouse,\u201d \u200bwhich is being recognized as an anthem for abortion rights, \u200bfemale empowerment, and individual freedom. The song was\u2064 reportedly\u200d written\u2063 in response\u2064 to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of *Roe \u200dv. Wade* and has been in the making\u200b since then.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, \u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d features a repetitive melody, with Nicks predominantly singing the same \u200cthree notes\u200b throughout its over five-minute duration. The visuals in the \u2062accompanying \u200dmusic video depict Nicks in an almost divine manner, juxtaposing images\u2064 of a church\u2063 with a surgical setting, suggesting her role as\u200d a guiding figure \u2062for \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">young women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video\u200d opens with definitions of \u201clighthouse\u201d and transitions \u200cto visually striking scenes\u2063 that \u2062compel viewers to recognize the song\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrities-applaud-texas-valedictorian-for-using-speech-to-promote-abortion\/\" title=\"Celebrities Applaud Texas Valedictorian For Using Speech To Promote Abortion\">pro-abortion message<\/a>, including \u200bdemonstrators advocating for\u2062 women\u2019s rights. Notably, one scene highlights a young pregnant woman labeled with &#8220;MY CHOICE,&#8221; encapsulating the theme of personal agency.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, despite the song&#8217;s staunch support for abortion rights, Nicks \u2064had previously expressed some\u200b regret\u2063 in a 1992 interview regarding her own choices surrounding pregnancy.\u200d At 76 years old, she remains without children,\u200b raising questions about the depth \u200dof her convictions as she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-sydney-sweeney-i-want-to-have-a-family-ive-always-wanted-to-be-a-young-mom\/\" title=\"Actress Sydney Sweeney: \u201cI Want To Have A Family, I\u2019ve Always Wanted To Be A Young Mom\u201d\">encourages young women<\/a> to engage with\u200d the\u2064 decision \u2062of abortion without warning against its profound impacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d presents itself as a complex blend of musical simplicity and profound messaging, highlighting both Nicks&#8217; advocacy \u200bfor women&#8217;s rights and her personal reflections on \u2062motherhood.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stevie Nicks has released a new single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJDCYh5iWQs&amp;t=32s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;The Lighthouse,&rdquo;<\/a> currently being celebrated by all the usual suspects as an &ldquo;anthem&rdquo; to abortion rights, female empowerment, and individual freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stevie-nicks-discusses-new-song-the-lighthouse-abortion-access-exclusive-8719365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The song was purportedly written<\/a> shortly after the U. S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> two years ago, and Nicks has been working to &ldquo;perfect&rdquo; it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, it&rsquo;s a tedious affair, with Nicks singing the same three notes, falling within the melodic range of a fourth, for most of its monotonous, plodding, 5-plus minutes. Visually, Nicks is depicted in almost religious terms &mdash; there are a few fleeting flashes of an area behind her that looks, alternately, like a church and a surgical area &mdash; as some sort of goddess or prophetess, a wise and experienced older woman ready to dispense the truth today&rsquo;s young women so sorely need.<\/p>\n<p>The video for the song opens with several definitions of &ldquo;lighthouse&rdquo; (&ldquo;guide,&rdquo; &ldquo;beacon&rdquo;) overlaid on a scene of waves crashing against rocks. Then the camera zooms in on an actual lighthouse, and what do you know, there is Nicks inside the lighthouse lamp, dressed in black, swaying back and forth, long blonde hair flying in the wind as she prepares to guide today&rsquo;s young women away from the darkness of personal responsibility and into the freedom of sexual license. <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the video shows various images of pro-abortion demonstrators, women marching for &ldquo;rights,&rdquo; and the like. A particularly chilling moment depicts a beautiful, young pregnant woman bathed in soft light and playing violin while her exposed, bare belly displays the words &ldquo;MY CHOICE.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast with the song&rsquo;s radical pro-abortion theme, Nicks <a href=\"https:\/\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/come-into-my-parlour-vox-magazine-feb-1992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gave an interview to Vox<\/a> in 1992 in which she seemed to express some abortion regret:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;To give up four (babies) is to give up a lot that would be here now. So that really bothers me, a lot, and really breaks my heart. But they&rsquo;re gone, so &hellip;&rdquo; she composes herself. &ldquo;But I couldn&rsquo;t because I was too busy. And I had all these commitments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicks goes on in the interview to ponder whether she might still have a child.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve also thought about having one myself but I&rsquo;m booked up for the next four years. I don&rsquo;t know, at my age, if I can get pregnant right away, do an album at the same time, have a baby, promote the album, go on tour with the baby. So I&rsquo;m going back and forth in my mind. At 43 years old, my time clock is ticking, so I can&rsquo;t afford to wait around for very long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicks is now 76. The clock has ticked all the way down, and she is still childless. Do the abortions still bother her? Apparently not enough for her to counsel young women to think deeply about a decision that will take the life of one person and forever and irreversibly alter their own rather than head to the abortion facility as soon as they can.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the lyrics of &ldquo;The Lighthouse&rdquo; plead with those young women to fight for what Nicks thinks has been taken from them. She tells them to &ldquo;stand up,&rdquo; &ldquo;take it back,&rdquo; &ldquo;get mad,&rdquo; &ldquo;get in the game,&rdquo; &ldquo;learn how to play,&rdquo; and &ldquo;do it today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But a few passages in the song that seem to refer to what Nicks sees as a loss of women&rsquo;s freedom to get an abortion (which, it should be said, is patently ridiculous) could just as easily refer to something else. She sings of having &ldquo;scars,&rdquo; of a light going out, of life being &ldquo;forever changed,&rdquo; of &ldquo;nightmares&rdquo; and a &ldquo;dream&rdquo; dying.<\/p>\n<p>What if those words were written about a baby instead of the right to abort that baby? Maybe, in some way, they were.<\/p>\n<p>Nicks has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/oct\/14\/stevie-nicks-on-art-ageing-and-attraction-botox-makes-it-look-like-youre-in-a-satanic-cult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly indicated<\/a> that one of her abortions ended the life of a child she conceived with Don Henley: &ldquo;If I had not had that abortion, I&rsquo;m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac &hellip; And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people&rsquo;s hearts and make people so happy. And I thought: you know what? That&rsquo;s really important.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, Ms. Nicks, I think the world would have survived without Fleetwood Mac. But what might that child, and your other children, have brought to your life, and to the world? Tragically, we&rsquo;ll never know.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Cheryl Magness is managing editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lcms.org\/\">Reporter<\/a>, the official web magazine of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. She writes regularly on issues of faith, family and culture. The opinions expressed here are her own.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Nicks&#8217; new single &#8220;The Lighthouse&#8221; is hailed as an anthem for abortion rights and female empowerment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":2350650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-10-01T104624.521.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[42335,42336,42334],"class_list":["post-2350649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion-song","tag-coping-mechanism","tag-stevie-nicks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-10-01T104624.521.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}