Ani also has a spoken word poem that has appeared on a couple of her earlier albums. Definatly pro-choice.
“…walking twards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut
I could step off the end of this peir, but I have shit to do and an appointment on Tuesday, to shed uninvited blood and tissue…”
Leonard Cohen “The Future”
There’ll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your private life will suddenly explode…
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is murder.
And another of his songs which I can’t remember
He has since come out as pro-choice, though.
I’m having a Twilight Zone moment. I just got home, and on the way back I was listening to a pop song in the car and found myself wondering if it was partly about abortion.
This is from Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls:
Don’t you love the life you killed
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
Don’t suppose I’ll ever know
What it means to be a man
Something I can’t change
I’ll live around it
Ambigious I know. But my eyes almost popped out when I saw this thread.
Rockin’ in the Free World has an anti-abortion verse? Which one is it?
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.
I fail to see how this verse is definitely anti-abortion. Especially since this is by Neil Young. The next verse is an anti-Bush triade. (the first one)
Pearl Jam’s “Just a Girl” (not to be confused with the later No Doubt song of the same name) criticizes anti-abortion clinic protests and attacks. The title character seems to be a teen mother who was unable to obtain an abortion, although the lyrics are a little unclear.
Uh, there’s a difference between having an abortion and leaving your infant to die in a dumpster. “Rockin’ in the Free World” clearly deals with the latter.
There’s always Let’s Go Bomb an Abortion Clinic, by yours truly. 
After some Goggle research regarding Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut”, I can’t find anything that says the lyrics specifically refer to abortion. However, there are a lot of (questionable) links implying that a lime/cocounut cocktail can possibly induce an abortion, sort of a folk remedy. In fact, there is a drink called and “Abortion” with ingredients including lime and coconut.
So my guess is that Harry had that in mind when he wrote the song.
Thanks for correcting me, Lamia and Petey. It’s been a little while since I’ve heard that song. Sorry about that. Carry on.
That godawful 60s “ballad” called ‘MacArthur Park’ is supposedly about an abortion. The cake mentioned in the lyrics being a baby: “It took so long to bake it, and we’ll never have a cake like that again…oh nooooooo!!!”
Also, the Beatles song “She’s Leaving Home” is about a woman abandoning her parents to “meet a man from the motor trade,” which christian groups protested as meaning that “she went to a back-alley abortion doctor.”
The latter two examples are debateable. But then there is the rather obscure Sinead O’Conner song “My Special Child.” That is definitely about an abortion, even Sinead says herself says so. Unsurprisingly, it never got any airplay in the States.
And there I was thinking MacArthur Park was about the best hash cakes ever baked…
I thought Pennyroyal Tea by Nirvana is about abortion. Just because I happen to know that pennyroyal, an herb, happens to be an abortificant (among other herbal uses).
You can also crush the leaves to make flea repellent.
Steve Taylor caught a lot of flak for “I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good” from people unfamiliar with the concept of irony. From his I Predict:1990 release.
Also one of the 77’s early albums included a song “Pretty Baby” which was clearly anti-abortion. The album might have been All Fall Down but I’m not sure.
Actually Johnny Reznick has gone on record saying “Slide” is about Catholic school girls sneaking out of their dorms to have sex with random guys.
And as far as I knew The Verve’s “The Freshman” was about a freshman who commits suicide because she has sex with a guy who then ignores her.
Peace Frog by The Doors.
"‘Blood!’ screamed her brain and chopped off her fingers
Blood stains the roofs and palmtrees of Venice
Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
She came to town and then she drove away,
sunlight in her hair."
Or something like that. Going from memory
Why do the artists who bitch the loudest about free downloading get so much radio airplay?
Must be a recent one?
If you want a real Everclear anti-abortion song, check out “Pennsylvania” from World of Noise.
Benefit album: BORN TO CHOOSE (1993; U.S., Rykodisk, CD: RCD 10256) -
[for NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), BWARE (Brooklyn Women’s Anti-Rape Exchange) and WHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization)]
* R.E.M. w/Natalie Merchant: *Photograph*
* Matthew Sweet: (The Beatles') *She Said, She Said*
* Sugar: *Running Out Of Time*
* Mekons: *Born To Choose*
* John Trudell: *Rant 'N' Roll*
* Tom Waits: *Filipino Box Spring Hog*
* Lucinda Williams: *Pancakes*
* Pavement: *Greenlander*
* NRBQ: *Don't Talk About My Music*
* Cowboy Junkies: (David Wiffen's) *Lost My Driving Wheel*
* Soundgarden: *HIV Baby*
* Helmet: *Distracted*Yeah… y’know, that’s pretty obvious, (considering she sings praying/ for the next doctor/ martin/ luther/ king, but I’d never thought of it like that before.
Then again, I’d assumed this verse was about the murder was about an abortion doctor:
*It was just one shot
through the kitchen window
it was just one or two miles from here
if you fly like a crow
a bullet came to visit a doctor
in his one safe place
a bullet ensuring the right to life
whizzed past his kid and his wife
and knocked the glasses
right off of his face
and the blood poured off the pulpit
the blood poured down the picket line
yeah, the hatred was immediate
the hatred was divine
so they went and stuffed god
down the barrel of a gun
and after him
they stuffed his only son*
Which from the ‘one or two miles from here’ I’m assuming it happened in Buffalo, and the ‘bullet ensuring the right to life’ I imagine he was an abortion doctor. Or maybe this is the assassination of Dr MLK. But he didn’t get shot at home, did he?
Maybe that bit is another solidarity thing.
Who’s Medgar Evers?
I think it’s an anti-killing-people song.
I couldn’t say one or another whether it’s anti-abortion because I don’t know, but an abortion doctor was killed in his home in Buffalo because he was an abortion doctor. It was a fairly famous case.
And Medgar Evers was another civil rights leader in the 60s who was assassinated.
She Said She said was about an acid trip, Peter Fonda kept saying “I know what it’s like to be dead”.
I have listened to “You Can’t be to Strong” for twenty years and I know it is about abortion, but I still can’t quite tell if it’s pro or con, it is rather ambiguous, since there is the line “You can’t be to strong, you decide what’s wrong…”