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Halsey doubled down on her support for abortion rights on Wednesday while responding to fans who left her Sunday night concert in Phoenix, Arizona, upset.
That evening, Halsey criticized the Supreme Court’s recent decision to rule Roe v. picking up Wade, prompting some fans to leave the show.
The 27-year-old singer, who uses she/she pronouns, asked fans to “do the work” to protect each person’s rights “for the rest of their lives” as she mingles with the crowd at the Ak-Chin Pavilion talked about her pro-choice attitude between a pause in songs.
Halsey later went to Twitter to support their views.
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Halsey took to social media to defend his pro-choice views. The singer attended the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills. (Daniele Venturelli)
“The argument ‘people pay to see you sing and not hear your views’ is so stupid,” she wrote. “No, you paid to see me use a stage as a form of expression in the way I chose. I’m sorry you lack the critical thinking to realize that the rhetorical power of music doesn’t always serve your escapism.”
During Sunday’s concert, Halsey paced as she addressed the crowd in a Video shared on Twitter.
“The truth is, looking at this audience breaks my heart because I see so many people who deserve to live incredible lives, who deserve the right to the health care they need, who deserve the right deserve to choose yourself in the situation where you have it, a choice,” Halsey said. “I look out for each and every one of you and I don’t ever want you to have to be in a situation where you don’t have access have to.
“If you don’t like it, you can go home now, I don’t care.”
One fan tweeted: “THE CROWD OF PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE HALSEY CONCERT AFTER A NIGHTMARE ONLY WHEN SHE TALK ABOUT ABORTION WAS ILL. FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.”
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The “Without Me” singer didn’t seem concerned, writing, “Disadvantage of outdoor venues: no door to meet on the way out.”
Halsey shared similar words with the audience at Tuesday night’s show in Dallas at the Dos Equis Pavilion, where People magazine reported that fans chanted “F— [Texas Attorney General] Ken Paxton!” and “F— [Governor] Greg Abbott!”
“I’m honored to have my audience,” Halsey tweeted Wednesday. “They proudly cultivate a space where emotion and action meet. i love what i do And expect me to always tell the truth when I get up there. The show must go on.”
Halsey and partner Alev Aydin welcomed son Ender Ridley in July 2021.
Halsey and partner Alev Aydin welcomed son Ender Ridley in July 2021. The couple is pictured at the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills. (Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic)
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SCOTUS’ June 24 decision effectively ended recognition of a constitutional right to abortion that had been in effect since 1973, and gives individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether.
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh voted to end landmark federal abortion protections. Chief Justice John Roberts did not agree to end Roe.
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“The majority overruled Roe and Casey for one reason and only one: because it has always despised them and now has the votes to cast them out,” judges Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote in a joint, 59 -side report dissent.
“By overruling Roe and Casey, this court is betraying its guiding principles. It is with sadness – for this court, but even more so for the tens of millions of American women who have lost basic constitutional protections today – that we disagree.”
Tracy Wright is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to [email protected].