• Stevie Nicks says going through with her unplanned pregnancy would have broken up Fleetwood Mac.
• Nicks was inspired to write her latest song, “The Lighthouse,” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
• An online survey found that 76 percent of women worried that overturning Roe v. Wade would affect their career advancement.

With presidential elections less than two weeks away, Stevie Nicks76 years old, speaks out on abortion rights.

In an interview with CBS News Sunday morningNicks said that early in her career, in 1979, she had an unplanned pregnancy despite having an IUD and being “totally protected”.

“I’m like, ‘That can’t be happening.’ Fleetwood Mac is three years old. And it’s big. And we’re going to the third album. He was like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no, no,'” she said, adding, “It would. destroyed Fleetwood Mac.”

“It would have been a nightmare scenario for me to live through,” she said.

Nicks also addressed her abortion in an interview with Rolling Stonepublished on Thursday.

“I’m not the kind of woman who would hand my baby over to a nanny, not in a million years. So we would have been dragging a child around the world on tour, and I wouldn’t do that to my child,” she. said.

She would not have needed nine months, but several years to take care of her child. But doing so would have broken up the band, she said.

“So my decision was to have an abortion,” she said. “If people want to be mad at me for that, I don’t really care because my life was my life and my plan was my plan and had been since I was in the fourth grade.”

Nicks, who is not married and has no children, added that she has never looked back on her decision to have an abortion. “Not only did it allow me to follow my dream of being this rock’n’roll woman, but it allowed me to be this person who just wrote this song.”

Nicks was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice. In September, she released her new song, “The Lighthouse.” She said she was inspired to write the song after hearing the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“It’s not just about not being careful and having an abortion. It’s everything. It’s all healthcare. It is one ectopic pregnancy. It’s all the procedures that have to be done in our bodies that half of us never have, and half of us have a lot more than other people,” she told Rolling Stone.

A representative for Nicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Abortion politics came to the fore in the last presidential elections following the decision of the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Kamala Harris’ position on reproduction rights attracted a higher proportion of voters who are single women.

“When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, I will proudly sign it as president of the United States,” she said during her time. rally in Houston on Friday.

While Donald Trump previously said he was considering a 16 week ban about abortion, his public opinion on the matter has changed over the years.

The impact of abortion rights on career advancement

In a July 2022 online survey of 3,196 US workers age 18 and older LeanIn.Org76% of women worried that overturning Roe v. Wade would negatively impact their ability to advance in the workforce.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, more women spoke to BI about how access to abortion rights had helped their careers.

Favianna Rodriguez, an artist, she suffered abortions when he was 21 and 34 years old.

“I knew I didn’t want to have a child. The additional financial difficulties I faced just made my decision very clear,” she previously told BI.

Giving up both jobs allowed her to pursue a career in the arts and achieve financial well-being, she added.

Similarly, Tracy Young, the CEO of two startups, recently told BI about the importance of having reproductive rights for her career.

“Birth control helped me prepare for my pregnancy when I was ready,” said Young, who had her first child once she “matured as a CEO and as a leader.”

“When I was building a startup for the first time and running it as CEO for the first time, doing the biggest thing I’ve ever done, it just wasn’t the right time for me.”