Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told fans during a concert in London that he will renounce his United States citizenship, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

For 50 years, Roe v. Wade set a legal precedent that guaranteed the right to an abortion in the U.S. Friday’s 6-3 decision by a majority conservative bench now leaves individual states open to ban or restrict abortion.

“Fuck America. I’m fucking renouncing my citizenship. I’m fucking coming here,” Armstrong said while onstage at London Stadium on Friday evening (June 24).

“There’s just too much fucking stupid in the world to go back to that miserable fucking excuse for a country,” Armstrong continued. “Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.”

Armstrong is one of many artists who’ve spoken out in recent days following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that protects a person’s right to safely terminate a pregnancy in the United States.

For the first time in nearly five decades, abortion will no longer be protected as a federal right in the US. Each state will be able to decide individually whether to restrict or ban abortion.

“I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are,” Taylor Swift tweeted in response to the news. “That after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.”

Phoebe Bridgers, Harry Styles, Maggie Rogers, Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, and Pearl Jam were among the other artists who took to social media to criticize the decision, while Lizzo announced she was partnering with Live Nation to pledge a total of $1 million to organizations offering safe access to abortions.

According to AWM, singer Billie Eilish also expressed her outrage at the Supreme Court decision during a performance in July 2022.

“Today is a really, really dark day for women in the U.S. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer at this moment,” Billie Eilish said. She then dedicated her next song, “Your Power,” to the conservative Supreme Court justices who overturned the Roe v Wade decision in the 1970s. “The song we’re about to do is, I think, one of the favorites that we’ve written, and it’s about the concept of power and how we need to always remember how not to abuse it.”

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Sources: AWM, Huffington Post

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