{"id":486134,"date":"2019-05-21T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=837848"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:26:48","slug":"ani-difranco-fights-for-reproductive-freedom-in-play-god-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/ani-difranco-fights-for-reproductive-freedom-in-play-god-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ani DiFranco Fights for Reproductive Freedom in \u2018Play God\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ani.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ani-difranco\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ani-difranco\" data-tag=\"ani-difranco\">Ani DiFranco<\/a> joined the numerous artists against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/abortion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abortion\" data-tag=\"abortion\">abortion<\/a> ban with a live video for \u201cPlay God.\u201d Featuring DiFranco\u2019s daughter Petah, the performance took place last September at Babefest in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the clip, the phrase \u201cReproductive freedom is a civil rights issue\u201d is scrawled across the screen. DiFranco then starts to play the fervent <em>Binary<\/em> track, singing: \u201c<span>I was done at 16\/<\/span>Showing up for class\/I was out there in the ring\/Learning how to kick some ass.\u201d Petah joins in for the chorus: \u201cYou don\u2019t get to play God, man, I do\u201d alongside her mother. Several pro-choice organizations to donate towards are listed at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReproductive freedom must be understood and protected as a civil (or even human) right, without which women cannot be free or achieve equality within society,\u201d DiFranco told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in a statement. \u201cReligious leaders can try to convince women that they should not have abortions but they cannot force all women to subscribe to their patriarchal religious creed. It is not the job of government to enforce religious creeds, but it is the job of government to protect the civil rights of its citizens. Any court worth its salt should find these new abortion bans unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiFranco just released her memoir, <em>No Walls and the Recurring Dream<\/em>, accompanied by a \u201cNo Walls\u201d Mixtape. \u201cI\u2019ve been through the wringer so many times, and this is definitely a new level of oversharing that I\u2019m sure will bring new levels of criticism and opinion my way,\u201d she recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ani-difranco-new-memoir-bob-dylan-prince-tour-831543\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnd I\u2019m definitely terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiFranco is currently on tour, performing throughout the summer with a stop included at Woodstock\u2019s Levon Helm Studios on June 16th. She\u2019ll wrap up at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival on August 16th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ani-difranco-reproductive-freedom-play-god-837848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ani DiFranco joined the numerous artists against the abortion ban with a live video for \u201cPlay God.\u201d Featuring DiFranco\u2019s daughter Petah, the performance took place last September at Babefest in Brooklyn. In the beginning of the clip, the phrase \u201cReproductive freedom is a civil rights issue\u201d is scrawled across the screen. DiFranco then starts to [&hellip;]<\/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-486134","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 17:42:08","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\/486134","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=486134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}