An urgent search has been launched to trace a missing Scots man who vanished earlier this week. Cops are asking the public for help to trace James Falconer, 64.
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Cyndi Lauper's late mother has inspired her to launch an abortion fund. The 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' singer has set up the Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights Fund to support organisations fighting for abortion and reproductive healthcare in the wake of the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which previously protected women's rights to an abortion, in June this year.
Cyndi said: "If you don't have control over your own body, how can you be anything but a second-class citizen? "Now, the government has control over your body - not you. "What should be a private medical decision between you and your doctor is now a government decision. So, this is a big issue for me.
" Cyndi's mother Catrine - who appeared in a number of her music videos, including for song 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' - died aged 91 earlier this year following a battle with Alzheimer's and vascular dementia. The singer said: "She was in hospice, and we were together. We tried to make it as comfortable as I could for her.
We made it like a spa," she says. "She was incredible, and I'm just lucky that I got to have her as my mom because it inspired me to do so many things, including this Girls Just Wanna Have Fundamental Rights Fund. " Cyndi has also dropped a lyric video for her 1993 abortion rights song 'Sally's Pigeons', which she recently re-released as an acoustic version.
She told PEOPLE: ['Sally's Pigeons'] was about newspaper headlines - 'Found Another Dead Young Woman. ' "[There were] lots of dead young women from illegal abortions that were not safe because you couldn't have a safe procedure. "Young people don't know what it was like.
I saw it every day. I knew how it affected a lot of young women. " Cyndi shared a new version of
.An urgent search has been launched to trace a missing Scots man who vanished earlier this week. Cops are asking the public for help to trace James Falconer, 64.
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Cyndi Lauper has launched Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights, a new fund dedicated to financially supporting organisations that “advance women’s rights and health”.The donor-advised fund – a play on the title of Lauper’s 1983 song ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ – is being housed by the Tides Foundation. In its first year, it will primarily give grants to organisations ensuring access to abortion and reproductive health services, in light of the overturning of Roe v.
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Cyndi Lauper is standing up for choice.