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Stevie Nicks reveals huge regret at not voting before she was 70

Wed 30 October 2024 18:46, UK

Prior to the 2024 Presidential Election, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks revealed her major regret at not voting before the age of 70.

This comes after her latest single, ‘The Lighthouse’, which centres around the need for women to have reproduction rights following the overturning of Roe v Wade during Donald Trump’s time in office, was released.

When speaking to MSNBC Morning Joe, Nicks claimed that not voting when she had the chance before was one of the major disappointments as a citizen, stating, “I never voted until I was 70, but now I regret that. And I told everybody that on the stage for the last two years, I regret that, and I don’t have very many regrets.”

While Nicks had stated that she had the opportunity to vote many times before, she had justified her neutral stance on being busy. In hindsight, she has since claimed she should have been willing to sacrifice “an hour of [her] time” back then.

This follows after Nicks took to Instagram as both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump began the final stretches of their campaign, stating, “Your vote in this election may be one of the most important things you ever do.”

Stevie Nicks’s history surrounding abortion rights

When Nicks first became pregnant and decided to have an abortion in 1977, she was protected under Roe v Wade, which went into action in 1973 and sought to provide aid to women in her situation. However, America decided to overturn the ruling in June 2022.

Nicks saw this as a great injustice for women everywhere, even revealing that Fleetwood Mac would have been finished had she decided to raise a child in the group’s prime. Upon releasing ‘The Lighthouse,’ the song dealt with women being stripped of their rights, singing, “All the rights that you had yesterday are taken away/and now you’re afraid, you should be afraid.”

Following the release of ‘The Lighthouse’, Nicks also shared her thoughts on how the public should embrace women’s reproductive rights. In reaction to the disgust at the overturning of Roe v Wade, Nicks said that she used this song to support the cause, stating, “It seemed like overnight, people were saying, ‘What can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me, it was to write a song.”

The overarching decision to record the song was for the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman to deliver a message that would resonate with the women of America for generations to come. Since then, she has called ‘The Lighthouse’ “the most important thing” she could have done.