“When they made that sh*t a law, I almost didn’t want to do the show, because I wanted to punish this f*cking place for allowing that to happen here,” said Billie Eilish
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Saturday night, Billie Eilish performed at the Austin City Limits festival to a sold-out crowd. However, Eilish revealed onstage that she almost pulled out of the music fest after Texas passed its hyperrestrictive abortion law back in May, which took effect September 1.
Eilish wasn’t the only celebrity to voice support of abortion rights over the weekend. On Saturday, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer participated in Washington, D.C.’s, Rally for Abortion Justice, which was one of 650 marches that took place across the country. The protest comes ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s October hearing on Mississippi’s anti-abortion law, initially passed in 2018, which bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. The case challenges Roe v.
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