Grammy Award-winning musician Lizzo called for her supporters to restore bodily autonomy and defend reproductive freedom in a video published to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that once protected a person's right to choose reproductive health care without excessive government restriction.
Lizzo's video is part of a new campaign for her shapewear brand, Yitty, and was released alongside images in which she and several models speak out in defense of reproductive and transgender rights.
You can see it below.
Lizzo also posted about the campaign on Twitter.
\u201cMY BODY IS NOBODYS BUSINESS.\n\nOn what would\u2019ve been the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade we share our stories \u2014 reproductive care is health care. Thread:\u201d— FOLLOW @YITTY (@FOLLOW @YITTY) 1674405894
In a speech directly to the camera, Lizzo said:
"Fifty years later we're still fighting the same fight for reproductive rights. We at Yitty are about body autonomy. We don't want to just liberate bodies through clothing; we want to liberate bodies through our voices."
"We believe that only you should have a say on what you do and how you feel about your body, and you should have access to reproductive health."
"As a brand committed to uplifting all people, we are devastated by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and we want to highlight these incredible activists and people who are fighting the fight on the front lines."
"Because your body is nobody's business."
Among the models who participated in the campaign is a young woman named Chloe who revealed she was forced to have a child that died two days after it was born.
Many praised Lizzo for orchestrating the campaign and speaking out.
\u201cYasss Lizzo for the conversation about #BodyAutonomy actually there is amazing fat queer black women owned business, that centers itself around body autonomy that you should collaborate with in support of @lovethybelly !\u201d— BIG TOTE (@BIG TOTE) 1674439355
\u201cAnother day, another @lizzo slay\u201d— dusty \ud83d\udc30 (@dusty \ud83d\udc30) 1674435445
\u201cLizzo Legend. This is beautiful. Thank you for continuing to use your platform to uplift the voices of others.\u201d— Jason (Emperor T'Challa) (@Jason (Emperor T'Challa)) 1674414463
\u201cThis is AMAZING #Roe50\u201d— Alyssa Miller-Hurley (@Alyssa Miller-Hurley) 1674420778
\u201cAs ever, we surely don\u2019t deserve all that is @lizzo.\u201d— Christy Boraas, MD, MPH (@Christy Boraas, MD, MPH) 1674438634
\u201cwhen will the war on women end? Thank you @lizzo for using your platform to support the collective \u2728\u201d— Cheram Rozaria (@Cheram Rozaria) 1674423818
\u201cwords can't explain how much I adore lizzo\u201d— andy (@andy) 1674425497
Republicans vowed to roll back reproductive rights even further in the event they took back control of Congress but November's midterm elections did not result in the "red wave" GOP pollsters and legislators had predicted.
The anniversary of Roe v. Wade fell one day after the March for Life demonstration in Washington, D.C., which attracted attendees from all around the country who vowed to continue speaking out against abortion and convince Americans that restoring reproductive rights would be an "unacceptable" development.
