A mother multiple times over by the end of her teens, Lynn gave voice to those who historically had little control over childbirth and their own sexuality.
By KRISTIN M. HALL, AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90, lived through — and sang about — decades of advancements for women's social movements, achievements now endangered.
"She talks about being able to wear the clothes she wants," Collins, who now volunteers as a case manager on the Kentucky Health Justice Network's abortion resources hotline, said of 1975's"The Pill.""Because of my access to birth control, I could go out to bars with my friends and wear miniskirts. And that was not something I ever had to think twice about until the lyric finally hit me.
Men in country music were singing about abortion, premarital sex and divorce in the '60s and '70s with little or no blowback, but it was rare that a woman could sing about wanting to enjoy sex with her husband without the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy, as Lynn did. She wrote that she couldn't even sign her own consent form to have a caesarean section because she was still a minor and her husband, Oliver Lynn — known as"Dolittle or"Mooney" — was out on a logging job and unreachable.
"Personally, I think you should prevent unwanted pregnancy rather than get an abortion. I don't think I could have an abortion. It would be wrong for me," she added."But I'm thinking of all the poor girls who get pregnant when they don't want to be, and how they should have a choice instead of leaving it up to some politician or doctor who don't have to raise the baby. I believe they should be able to have an abortion.
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