Cyndi Lauper releases updated version of "Sally’s Pigeons" after Roe v. Wade reversal

Last week the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, a landmark ruling in 1973 that allowed women to choose to have an abortion, and in the wake of the reversal, Cyndi Lauper shared a re-recorded version of her 1993 song "Sally's Pigeons", which was inspired by one of her childhood friends who died after getting a back-alley abortion.

Lauper wrote on social media, "The Supreme Court’s radical decision today makes the re-recording and re-release of "Sally’s Pigeons" more relevant than ever. In my childhood, women didn't have reproductive freedom and 50 years later we find ourselves in a time warp where one’s freedom to control their own body has been stripped away."

"When I wrote this song with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1991, we wrote about two little girls who dreamt of stretching their wings like the pigeons they watched that flew above them," Lauper continued. "They dreamt of being free. But freedom then for women and unfortunately now comes at a big price. If we don’t have control over our own bodies then we have no real freedom. We are second class citizens. We need to mobilize. We need to let our voices be heard."

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