Stevie Nicks Credits Her Abortion For Fleetwood Mac Fame, ‘That Was My World’s Mission’

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks opens up about a decision that she believes she had to make in order to save her career while discussing the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

In the article, Jenny Stevens writes that Women’s rights have been on Nicks’ mind since the death of her “hero”, the US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last month

According to the singer, “Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight. If President Trump wins this election and puts the judge he wants in, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back-alley abortions.”

Fleetwood Mac released Rumours in 1977 and in 1979, Nicks terminated a pregnancy, when the band was at their height and she was dating the Eagles singer Don Henley.

Nicks believes, “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away.”

“And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make people so happy. And I thought: you know what? That’s really important. There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world’s mission,” Nicks claimed.

Recently, an Idaho man went viral on the TikTok app for skateboarding down a highway, sipping Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice right out of the bottle and lip syncing to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit “Dreams” all at the same time, which brought the group back into the spotlight.