Global pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo joined with fellow female pop stars to raise $10 million for the abortion industry and related causes at the Daisy Chain Fields festival created by Rodrigo over the weekend. Billionaire Bill Gates’s ex-wife Melinda matched the funds, leaving a grand total of $20 million in the pocket of the Daisy Chain Fields Fund. 

The festival lists its beneficiaries as including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the National Women’s Law Center, an organization that “defends” the “freedoms” of the LGBT community through “culture change.” The sold-out spectacle happened August 29 and was held at Great Park in Irvine, California. 

“The organizations we’ve partnered with are doing incredibly important work every single day in the U.S. and globally,” Rodrigo said during a press conference before the event. Rodrigo said she created the festival to bear resemblance to the feminist music festival Lilith Fair created by singer Sarah McLachlan in the 1990s. 

But experts say the worldview of the abortion industry is based on antiquated tropes. “For the vast majority of human history, including in the U.S., women experienced genuine subjugation,” Joy Stockbauer, policy analyst for the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “While American women today do have equal rights under the law, all we need to do is flip a few pages back in the history books to remember when our mothers or grandmothers couldn’t open their own bank accounts, or pursue legal redress for spousal rape. Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses thrive off of the fear women still feel for the injustices of the past — it’s their entire marketing strategy.”

Students for Life of America (SFLA), a nationwide pro-life group, arranged peaceful protests that took place at the Daisy Chain Fields festival on Saturday. “Planned Parenthood just received millions of dollars in government funding, and yet these celebrities want to raise even more funds to keep women from becoming mothers,” said SFLA President Kristan Hawkins in a statement. “This isn’t about raising money to support women and girls; this is about ending as many preborn children’s lives as possible through abortion, no matter the harms of abortion experienced by the women Rodrigo claims to care about.”

Some claimed that Rodrigo’s inaugural music festival came at a time “when Donald Trump’s government is actively stripping away rights from disabled people, women, people of color and LGBTQ+ citizens in the US.” The New York Times chimed in about the event as well, saying that it “persistently megaphoned messages of equality, but it still offered the best views of the stage to those who had paid $1,250 for special ‘pit access’ tickets.”

Rodrigo sat down in an interview with Planned Parenthood last month, which has been used as a viral social media campaign for the pro-abortion organization. “We are going to keep showing up every single day, no matter what,” Rachel Rodriguez, chief people and culture officer at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, told Rodrigo.

“Hell yeah,” Rodrigo replied.

Rodrigo continued that she found the environment of Planned Parenthood to be “inspiring.” “It’s like, a gorgeous thing,” she gushed. 

According to Family Research Council, Planned Parenthood committed 402,230 abortions in the 2022 fiscal year alone, killing an average of 1,102 unborn babies per day.” 

Other notable performers at Daisy Chain Fields included Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Kesha, Alanis Morissette, Gwen Stefani, Doechii, Stevie Nicks, and Sarah McLachlan. Stefani, a music star since the 1980s, is a self-proclaimed Catholic. Doechii, a rapper, has previously said she grew up in a Christian home and can relate to religious people. 

As noble as they think their intentions are, Hawkins emphasized that the festival performers are unwittingly supporting a movement with no future. “Olivia Rodrigo’s music festival is designed to fund the deaths of the pop star’s future fanbase,” she observed. “If Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival was really pro-woman like it claims, it would offer support and resources to preborn girls and their mothers, not fund the industry that routinely costs both their lives.”

Stockbauer added that it is not the job of pro-lifers to cast judgment on the mindset of abortion vulnerable women. 

“It’s our job to correct the misinformation and manipulation of the abortion industry, to educate on the truth of what abortion is, and to build a culture where girls aren’t afraid to be women.”