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Florence Welch recently suffered an ectopic pregnancy, losing her first child and nearly her own life. It’s another example of how liberals fail the very women who keep showing up to rally for them – this time, in the music industry. 

Even if you don’t recognize Florence Welch’s name, you probably recognize the name of her band – Florence and the Machine. She’s had some big hits like Dog Days Are Over and You’ve Got the Love.

Florence’s most recent album is called Everybody Scream, and it was inspired by the experience of losing her only child in an ectopic pregnancy.

Florence got pregnant when she was almost 37. She had spent some time discerning whether to pursue motherhood or continue to focus solely on becoming a performer. Ultimately, she and her on again / off again boyfriend decided to try for a baby.

She became pregnant on the first try. But early in the pregnancy, she began bleeding. 

Florence thought she was experiencing a normal miscarriage. But in an abundance of caution, her doctor told her she should go to the hospital to get an ultrasound to rule out an ectopic pregnancy. Alarmingly, the scan showed that Florence’s fallopian tube had ruptured and her abdomen was full of blood. 

Ectopic pregnancies occur when the baby implants outside of the uterus, most often in a fallopian tube. As the baby grows, the fallopian tube cannot stretch to accommodate the baby like a uterus can – because that’s what uteruses are made for. When this happens, the fallopian tube can rupture, causing the baby to die and massive internal bleeding in the mother. This is a life-threatening situation that requires emergency intervention. 

Florence needed emergency surgery, and her ruptured fallopian tube had to be removed. The experience of losing the child and coming close to death herself traumatized Florence. 

In an interview with The Guardian ahead of her new album releasing, Florence talks about the emotional toll the experience had on her, especially since this was her only experience of motherhood. She said, “The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death.”

She was angry that her industry expected her to move on like nothing had happened: “After the trauma of the ectopic pregnancy and the emergency surgery, she thought that she wanted to put it all away. “But working again helped me. It was like little lanterns in a fog. I could just pick my way through. And I was so angry! There was a fury at how unsupported I felt by my industry, how clear it was, that it wasn’t built for me.””

She identifies the feelings so many women experience when they grieve the loss of a preborn child in silence. She said, “I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.”

Any mother who has gone through miscarriage or stillbirth can feel like she has joined a club that no one ever wants to be in, and where grief happens in silence with no one outside of the club really understanding or even caring what they went through and the grief they live with every day. 

Florence is also angry with the industry that is designed to squeeze as much profit as it can out of its stars. Record labels don’t care if you’re a man or a woman – they care about how viral your song can go, how big of a theater they can pack on your tour stops to maximize ticket sales, and how many albums you can crank out to keep the profit wheel turning. 

The music industry is fueled by sex, drugs, and rock and roll. There’s no time for babies, families, or motherhood. So when women get involved in the music industry, abortion is often the fallback plan to keep the two worlds separated.

And Florence is no exception. She is a long time abortion activist. She has condemned pro-life laws in the U.S. and supported pro-abortion measures like repealing Ireland’s Eighth Amendment. She wants to work in an industry that supports killing children but also expects that same heartless industry to comfort mothers who have lost children. It’s a contradiction.

My heart goes out to Florence Welch and I hope she finds the healing she’s so desperately seeking. She’s spoken a lot about turning to witchcraft and new age spirituality in search of healing. 

Florence should be angry that her industry doesn’t care about her wellbeing or her grief. She should be angry that her industry expects its biggest stars to kill their children rather than miss the opportunity to record a new album or go on another tour. She should be angry that she’s being used for how much music she can churn out while her fertile years quickly slip away. 

She doesn’t need witches or grief rituals. She needs God, and she needs to find a space where she can live in the continuity between her own grief over losing her own child and being a creative performer. Until that happens, she will live in the chaos of wanting her own motherhood and loss to be valued while serving an industry and an ideology that supports other women killing their children. 

Kristan Hawkins is the President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action. Subscribe to The Kristan Hawkins Show HERE.