{"id":486045,"date":"2019-05-18T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=837122"},"modified":"2019-05-18T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:29:56","slug":"the-1975s-matty-healy-slams-abortion-ban-at-alabamas-hangout-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-1975s-matty-healy-slams-abortion-ban-at-alabamas-hangout-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1975\u2019s Matty Healy Slams Abortion Ban at Alabama\u2019s Hangout Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 1975<\/a>\u2019s Matty Healy delivered an impassioned speech against the abortion ban<\/a> during the band\u2019s performance at Alabama\u2019s Hangout Fest on Friday night.<\/p>\n

While speaking about the importance of freedom of expression, The 1975 frontman transitioned into advocating for women\u2019s rights. \u201cThe reason I\u2019m so angry is because I don\u2019t believe [the ban] is about the preservation of life, I believe it\u2019s about the controlling of women,\u201d Healy told the crowd.<\/p>\n

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Matty\u2019s speech about performing in Alabama and the abortion ban @the1975<\/a> thank you pic.twitter.com\/fxiREQin9C<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 anna \/\/ THANK YOU MATTY (@esnypilots) May 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Healy went onto reveal that he spent the prior night reading the abortion bill, which discussed the number of Jews that died in the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and mass murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s people, men in the active government actively comparing the harrowing difficult life choices of female American citizens to the Holocaust, to the Holocaust. That is a disgrace,\u201d said Healy, adding that \u201cif you think the Holocaust is analogous to those things, people will call you a monster, but I will tell you, you are fundamentally uneducated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I\u2019m so angry is because I don\u2019t believe [the ban] is about the preservation of life, I believe it\u2019s about the controlling of women,\u201d he continued, criticizing the government officials who passed the law saying, \u201cyou are not men of God, you are simply misogynistic wankers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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here\u2019s @Truman_Black<\/a> from @the1975<\/a> talking about the abortion ban at @Hangoutfest<\/a> in Alabama. excuse my shaky hands!! pic.twitter.com\/cZQul7XrYP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Paige Benjamin (@paige_benjamin) May 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The 1975 is reportedly set to release Notes On A Conditional Form<\/em><\/a>\u2014the follow-up to last year\u2019s album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships<\/em><\/a>\u2014in June. While they\u2019re currently in the midst of a North American tour<\/a>, the band will head to the U.K., Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand from June through September. A full list of tour dates can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1975\u2019s Matty Healy delivered an impassioned speech against the abortion ban during the band\u2019s performance at Alabama\u2019s Hangout Fest on Friday night. While speaking about the importance of freedom of expression, The 1975 frontman transitioned into advocating for women\u2019s rights. \u201cThe reason I\u2019m so angry is because I don\u2019t believe [the ban] is about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 14:52:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}