Halsey responds to fans that left gig during abortion rights speech

nme.com:

Halsey has responded to reports that some fans walked out of their recent concert in Phoenix during a speech about abortion rights.At Sunday’s (June 26) show, Halsey encouraged fans to take a stance on reproductive rights, delivering a powerful speech about the need to be active following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v.

Wade abortion ruling.“This has been happening for a very long fucking time,” Halsey said to approximately 20,000 concert-goers at the Ak-Chin Pavilion. “I know that we want to sit at home and we want to wait for some revolutionary to come along, to make a difference, but no one is fucking coming.”They continued: “Nobody is fucking coming.

It is up to every single one of you, myself, every single person in this building to do our fucking part to protect bodily autonomy and bodily integrity.

To protect medical privacy.”Receiving an outpouring of cheers from their crowd, Halsey then led a chant, yelling “my body” and spurring the audience to respond with “my choice”.One Twitter user has since claimed that a number of concert-goers left the venue during the ‘You Should Be Sad’ singer’s speech. “The amount of people who just walked out of the Halsey concert after ‘Nightmare’ when she spoke about abortion was sickening.