I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make people so happy. And I thought: you know what? That’s really important. There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world’s mission.
–Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac, in a recent interview
An awful lot of people have experienced an awful lot of happiness, listening to Fleetwood Mac. We had the Rumours LP in our house. To this day, my mind knows every riff, every piano stroke, every lilting word of “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain,” “You Make Loving Fun,” and “I Don’t Wanna Know.”
In fact, the record might very well have been on the turntable, filling my nine-year-old ears, and my brother’s seven-year-old ears, at the very moment when the baby died in 1979.
If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away.
In the interview, Ms. Nicks frets about the end of Roe v. Wade. “Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight.”
We talked here, over two years ago, about the end of Roe v. Wade. We considered the psychological toll it will take on a society long accustomed to abortion on demand. We recognized the path of love that we Catholics must follow, to help expectant mothers.
The moment remains close, we can reasonably hope–the moment when that unscientific–and horrifically destructive–Supreme Court decision will cease to govern this land.
After all, would there have been a Fleetwood Mac if Stevie Nick’s mother had had an abortion? Or her mother before her? Who would have written and sung “Gypsy,” if Barbara Nicks had an abortion in late 1947 or early 1948? Or if Barbara’s mother had had an abortion in 1927?
And of course there’s this even-more-painful question to contemplate: What could the child have done? The one that died in 1979. What songs could he or she have sung? With all due respect, Ms. Nicks, these are questions that we have to ponder. The cruel, premature death of an innocent person affects everyone.
That’s what abortion is. Cruel, premature death. We are all here right now because someone protected us from such violence, at that vulnerable stage of life.
There is always a better way than abortion. Always. When everyone does their duty to help provide it. May God give us the love we need to do our part.
Father Mark White Blog 
Fleetwood Mac Existed before Stevie Nicks anyway. It was started in the ’60’s. The pro abortion mentality puts lesser priorities before more important ones by way of completely deceptive arguments.
Yes – there is always a better way than abortion…but…I know of a few who chose that route and like many they can face intimidation and forced situations one feels no control…The younger the person the easier to be influenced to a detrimental decision. The few I know suffer from the actions they took. Like all horrors we need to love, comfort, educate and forgive. I pray for all and our babies who must now reside in Heavens home with the Trinity and our loving Mother Mary
I have read that Ms. Nicks had as many as four abortions?
Don Henley was the father (“Leather and Lace”), and if one ever needed fodder for a Pro-Life persuasive discussion, simply find interviews with him about that pregnancy and his contempt for human life.
The FM song “Sara” addresses Nicks’s drug-influenced perception of her “lost baby”.