‘Guns for Everybody and No Reproductive Rights:’ Celebs React to the End of Roe

Here are some of the most on-brand, slightly insulting, and genuinely passionate celeb responses to the fall of Roe.

By Audra Heinrichs | June 24, 2022 | 10:20pm

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This morning, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, effectively overturning Roe v. Wade—the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.

The only thing more terrifying than a reality that doesn’t allow access to legal abortion is celebrities and Hollywood elites—who, make no mistake, will not be affected by such a ruling—weighing in on it. While I can co-sign a few (my allegiance is forever with Danny DeVito, the supreme leader of short kings everywhere) some are fairly tone-deaf but many are, surprisingly, pretty damn agreeable.

Here’s a compilation of responses to the fall of Roe that run the gamut from very on-brand to slightly insulting to genuinely passionate.

Mariah Carey

“It is truly unfathomable and disheartening to have to try to explain to my 11 year old daughter why we live in a world where women’s rights are disintegrating in front of our eyes.

Selena Gomez

“Watching a Constitutional right be stripped away is horrific. A woman should have the right to CHOOSE what she wants to do with her own body. End of story.”

Phoebe Bridgers

“Fuck that shit, fuck America. Like all these irrelevant motherfuckers trying to tell us what to do with our fucking bodies.”

Olivia Rodrigo

“I’m devastated and terrified. So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this.”

Kim Kardashian

“In America, guns have more rights than women.”

Barack Obama

“Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.”

Michelle Obama

“I am heartbroken today. I am heartbroken for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies. I am heartbroken that we may now be destined to learn the painful lessons of a time before Roe was made law of the land, a time when women risked losing their lives getting illegal abortions. A time when the government denied women control over their reproductive functions, forced them to move forward with pregnancies they didn’t want, and then abandoned them once their babies were born. That is what our mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers lived through, and now here we are again...This moment is difficult, but our story does not end here. It may not feel like we are able to do much right now, but we can. And we must.”

Hillary Clinton

“Most Americans believe the decision to have a child is one of the most sacred decisions there is, and that such decisions should remain between patients and their doctors. Today’s Supreme Court opinion will live in infamy as a step backward for women’s rights and human rights.”

Andy Cohen

“What a sad day for this country. Guns for everybody and no reproductive rights. Twisted. Twisted.”

Keke Palmer

“I’m past disgusted w/ my country and their constant inability to protect one another’s right & keep their word. How u overturning the wrong things? So many things to overturn that make sense. But this is what you chose??”

Finneas

“I don’t even know what to say other than absolutely fuck this.”

Ariana DeBose

“I have nothing nice to say at this moment in time.”

Shonda Rhimes

“This is actually happening.”

Nicola Coughlan

“Banning abortion doesn’t stop abortion, it stops safe, legal abortion. Governments have no place telling people what to do with their bodies.

Viola Davis

“And so it goes….Gutted. Now more than ever we have to use our voice and power! WE the people.”

Meena Harris

“Now I get to tell my daughters that we have to fight harder so we can have the same rights as guns.”

Glennon Doyle

“Comfort to every human being who feels afraid right now. i feel afraid too. it is okay to feel afraid and tender now. soon, the anger returns and we fight like bloody hell. first the pain, then the mother f—king rising.”

Padma Lakshmi

“People will still get abortions. These procedures won’t stop just because Roe v. Wade is overturned. This will only prevent safe, legal abortions from taking place. People who have the money, time, and resources will still find avenues for their procedures. But the most vulnerable of our community? What choices are those individuals, who are mostly BIPOC, left with? This is the catalyst for a public health crisis. The right to decide when to start a family or not is a choice every individual should be able to make on their terms when the time is right for them. This freedom and dignity is something we should all fight to preserve.”

Josh Gad

“You don’t need 280 characters today. Just one word: Rage”

Rachel Zegler

“Why the fuck don’t you care about us? why the fuck do you think you have any say over our bodies?”

Sophia Bush

“They will never end abortion. Only safe abortion. This is not about life. It’s about control. Those motherfuckers.”

Aly & AJ

“Sad day to be an American between Roe vs. Wade & NYC gun laws being struck down.”

Cynthia Nixon

“This ruling today at the height of Pride Month is particularly devastating. The foundation upon which Roe rested is the same that has protected so many of our rights as LGBTQ+ people. Clarence Thomas says as much. We’re all in this together.”

Busy Philips

“It doesn’t end here. Fuck this sham. Fuck these people. If you’re a single issue voter and your issue is your taxes, fuck you too. This Supreme Court is on you.”

Taylor Swift

“I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are—that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.”

Bette Midler

“GET READY, GAYS. YOU’RE NEXT.”

Danny DeVito

“Supreme Court, my ass.”

Hailey Bieber

“Wow. I’m speechless. What an extreme loss and disappointment. This is really really scary.”

Lea Thompson

“GUNS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THEN MY DAUGHTERS.”

Jameela Jamil

“The past 6 years has been terrifying and somehow keeps getting worse. These fucking evil bastards know that this never ends abortion, it only ends safe abortion. We need to VOTE. No wonder they are banning Handmaids Tale in Texas. They are using it as a manifesto…PRO LIFE, but only saying abortion has to be decided state by state, but gun laws are protected nationwide… fucking hundreds of mass shootings this year and it’s only June.”

Halle Berry

“I’m outraged! What the supreme court has done is BULLSHIT. Something has to be done! Guns have more rights than women. Stop this war on women & keep your laws off of our bodies. We have to ban together & NOT accept this! We can’t just post about it, we must DO SOMETHING about it.”