It seems Olivia Rodrigo‘s group has had a change of coronary heart after morning-after tablets and condoms have been handed out at her St. Louis GUTS Tour cease.
In accordance with studies that surfaced on Friday, Rodrigo’s group informed the abortion funds that she has partnered with for future tour stops that they’re not allowed handy out contraceptives.
“The #GUTSWorldTour is asking abortion funds to not convey emergency contraception (EC), condoms, or lube to tour stops,” DC Abortion Fund communications supervisor Jade Hurley stated in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter. “We hope to see this variation earlier than DC’s date on July twentieth.”
Even when the DC group isn’t allowed handy out contraceptives on the summer time present, it shared on X (previously Twitter) that it has no concern distributing Plan B free of charge outdoors of the venue. “GUTSWorldTour ticket-holders OR NOT: See you July twentieth outdoors Capital One! We deal with us,” the org wrote.
The Missouri Abortion Fund, which introduced the morning-after tablets and condoms to the St. Louis cease, shared its own statement, noting that handing out contraceptives is a part of what abortion funds do after they desk. The group additionally felt it was essential to make clear that emergency contraceptives can be found even when Rodrigo isn’t on the town and that they’re authorized and secure to make use of.
Sources informed Jezebel that her administration group prohibited the abortion funds from distributing contraceptives and provides at future reveals as a result of they’d be too accessible to younger ladies within the viewers.
The information comes after Rodrigo’s St. Louis present went viral, however the abortion funds tabling at earlier reveals, just like the one on March 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina, additionally had the contraceptives obtainable, in response to a put up on the Carolina Abortion Fund’s Instagram.
Forward of kicking off her GUTS Tour, Rodrigo introduced she was launching a brand new initiative, the Fund 4 Good, by which she would companion up with native chapters of the Nationwide Community of Abortion Funds. Collectively, they’re working to “guarantee these most impacted by systemic racism, misogyny and healthcare boundaries can get the reproductive care they deserve,” in response to its web page on the Leisure Business Basis web site.
On the St. Louis cease, the Missouri Abortion Fund handed out Julie morning-after tablets. The model launched following Roe v. Wade being overturned and works day-after-day to alter the dialog round emergency contraception to increase entry to communities most in want.
Representatives for Rodrigo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
