Florence + the Machine pairs up with Planned Parenthood for US tour

Florence Welch, lead vocalist of the rock band Florence + the Machine, has announced that the band will be partnering with Planned Parenthood for its upcoming U.S. tour.

Key Takeaways:

• Rock band Florence + the Machine has announced that Planned Parenthood will be on hand during some of its upcoming shows to offer information to concertgoers.

• The band's lead singer, Florence Welch, said Planned Parenthood is a "lifeline for millions" and can provide people the "care and information they need."

• In reality, Planned Parenthood's latest annual report revealed that it committed a record high of 434,450 abortions in just one year, while many of its other health care services continued to decrease.

The Details:

The partnership between Florence + the Machine and Planned Parenthood was announced in an April 6 press release, which detailed that members from some of the abortion organization's affiliates will be on hand during stops of the band's upcoming tour, "Everybody Scream."

The announcement stated:

Beginning on April 8, more than a dozen Planned Parenthood affiliates will table at multiple stops on the tour to talk with concertgoers about the essential sexual and reproductive care Planned Parenthood health centers provide, which is under attack by the Trump administration and its backers in Congress.

Planned Parenthood affiliate staff and volunteers will reportedly be on hand during concerts "to talk to fans about Planned Parenthood health center services in their communities, volunteer opportunities, and the fight for access to sexual and reproductive health care."

Welch made bold claims in announcing the partnership, calling Planned Parenthood a "lifeline for millions of people," while asserting that Planned Parenthood facilities are "relentlessly attacked."

"In this moment of uncertainty for our rights, I’m proud to support Planned Parenthood and create space on my tour for them to connect people with the care and information they need," she said.

Reality Check:

Just one day after the band's announcement, Planned Parenthood released its 2024-2025 annual report, which showed that the corporation is still making plenty of cash from taxpayers.

It was a record year for the abortion business, which raked in a whopping $832 MILLION in taxpayer dollars (in addition to $782.2 million in private revenue) while killing a record 434,450 preborn children. Clearly, it wasn't a "lifeline" for those human beings, who are discarded as mere medical waste.

Further, Live Action Research Fellow Carole Novielli noted that many of Planned Parenthood's actual health care services decreased for the fiscal year, including:

• Total cancer screenings - down nearly 9%

• Breast screenings dropped over 15%

• Pap tests - down nearly 2.5%

• Preventative Care Visits dropped over 3%

• Miscarriage Care (largely undefined) declined nearly 21%

• “Other” services dropped by nearly 20,000

• "Other Procedures" dropped over 35%

"Planned Parenthood commits nearly 57 abortions for every one prenatal care service it provides," Novielli pointed out. "Since 2000, while Planned Parenthood aborted nearly 8 million preborn babies, it provided just 331K prenatal services."

Read the full analysis here.

Zoom Out:

Last fall, Welch candidly shared that she once suffered an ectopic pregnancy which resulted in a ruptured fallopian tube. She noted the sadness she experienced after the loss, saying, "I think the sound that came out of me was like a wounded animal or something. And then, that was that." 

She also said she felt "unsupported" by the music industry, insinuating that she felt forced to choose between motherhood and her career, noting that far more men in the industry had children because they had a partner at home to care for those children.

"What I'm sacrificing to keep going is more apparent, and bigger, as you get older. I will get those things, hopefully," said Welch. "I will get to have a family, but I haven't had both. Or so far I haven't, and then when I tried, I was sort of violently rebuffed."

These sentiments make a partnership with Planned Parenthood all the more disappointing, as it's an organization that thrives on selling women the lie that they can't be successful in their careers if they have children, or they can abort now and simply have a child 'later' — the very lie Welch lamented permeates the music industry.

The Bottom Line:

Planned Parenthood makes its millions killing over 1,100 innocent preborn children every day. Surely that should be enough to make "everybody scream" over the bloodshed.