In response to the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade, Cyndi Lauper has released a re-recorded rendition of her 1993 abortion rights song “Sally’s Pigeons.”
Originally released some three decades ago, “Sally’s Pigeons” tells the story of Lauper’s childhood friend who, as a teenager, got pregnant and died following a back-alley abortion procedure.
In a statement about her composition Lauper said “The Supreme Court’s radical decision today makes the re-recording and re-release of ‘Sally’s Pigeons’ more relevant than ever.” “In my childhood, women didn’t have reproductive freedom and 50 years later we find ourselves in a time warp where one’s freedom to control their own body has been stripped away.”
Following the May leak of the Supreme Court memo that revealed the plan to overturn of Roe v. Wade, the superstar singer/songwriter – who attended a Planned Parenthood Bans Off Our Bodies march in New York City last month – entered the studio to record the new acoustic version of her song that was released on Friday (6.24) when the repeal became official.
“When I wrote this song with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1991, we wrote about two little girls who dreamt of stretching their wings like the pigeons they watched that flew above them,” Lauper continued. “They dreamt of being free. But freedom then for women and unfortunately now comes at a big price. If we don’t have control over our own bodies then we have no real freedom. We are second class citizens. We need to mobilize. We need to let our voices be heard.”
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Eva Rinaldi