• Stevie Nicks says following through with her unplanned pregnancy would have broken Fleetwood Mac.
• Nicks was inspired to write her latest song, “The Lighthouse,” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
• An online poll found that 76% of women were concerned that the overturning of Roe v. Wade would impact their career advancement.

With the presidential elections less than two weeks on the road, Stevie Nicks, 76, speaks out about abortion rights.

In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Nicks said that early in her career, in 1979, she had an unplanned pregnancy, despite having an IUD and being “fully protected.”

“I’m like, ‘This can’t be happening.’ Fleetwood Mac is three years old. And it’s big. And we’re going into our third album. It was like, ‘Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,'” she said, adding, “It would be. destroyed Fleetwood Mac.”

“It would have been a nightmare scenario for me to survive,” she said.

Nicks also spoke about her abortion in an interview with Rolling Stone published Thursday.

“I’m not the kind of woman who would hand my baby over to a babysitter, not in a million years. So we would be dragging a baby around the world on tour, and I wouldn’t do that to my baby,” she says. said.

She would have needed a few years, not nine months, to care for her baby. But if she did, the band would have broken up, she said.

“So my decision was to have an abortion,” she said. “If people want to be mad at me for that, I don’t really care because my life was my life, and my plan was my plan and it has been that way since I was in fourth grade.”

Nicks, who is not married and has no children, added that she has never looked back on her decision to abort. “Not only did it allow me to follow my dream of being a rock ‘n’ roll woman, but it also allowed me to be the person who just wrote this song.”

Nicks was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice. In September she released her new song ‘The Lighthouse’. She said she was inspired to write the song after hearing that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade.

“It’s not just about being careless and having an abortion. It’s everything. It’s all healthcare. It’s an ectopic pregnancy. It’s all the procedures that have to be done in our bodies, that half of us never have, and the other half of us have a lot more than other people,” she told Rolling Stone.

A representative for Nicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Abortion politics have come to the forefront in the last presidential election, following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Kamala Harris’ stance on reproductive rights has led to a larger share of voters being single women.

“If Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, I will proudly sign it into law as President of the United States,” she said during her rally in Houston on Friday.

While Donald Trump previously said he was considering a ban on 16-week abortions, his public opinion on the subject has changed over the years.

The impact of abortion rights on career development

In an online survey of 3,196 U.S. workers ages 18 and older conducted in July 2022 by LeanIn.Org, 76% of women were concerned that the overturn of Roe v. Wade would negatively impact their ability to advance on the labor market.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, several women spoke to BI about how access to abortion rights had helped them in their careers.

Favianna Rodriguez, an artist, had abortions when she was 21 and 34 years old.

“I knew I didn’t want to have a baby. The additional financial challenges I faced made my decision very clear,” she previously told BI.

Missing both pregnancies allowed her to pursue a career in the arts and achieve financial well-being, she added.

Similarly, Tracy Young, the CEO of two startups, recently told BI about the importance of reproductive rights to her career.

“Birth control helped me plan the pregnancy for when I was ready,” said Young, who had her first child after she “matured as a CEO and a leader.”

“When I first built a startup and led it as CEO for the first time and did the biggest job I’ve ever done, it just wasn’t the right time for me.”