Stevie Nicks credits the existence of Fleetwood Mac to her access to reproductive care

As the Republicans and Donald Trump move to confirm conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court weeks before the federal election, Stevie Nicks is speaking out about the importance of women's access to reproductive care. If Barrett is confirmed, the Roe v. Wade precedent for abortion access will likely be under threat and Nicks is hoping to spread awareness by sharing a very personal story.In an interview published Oct 14, Nicks recounted the story of an abortion she had in 1979, when she was in a relationship with Don Henley, frontman for the Eagles. “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,” she told The Guardian. “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,” she says.And so Nicks made a difficult choice that is currently under threat in the United States: she decided to terminate the pregnancy. “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.”[video_embed id='1684725']RELATED: A look at the state of abortion in Canada [/video_embed]Nicks added that she's been concerned about abortion rights since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September. Referring to the late Super Diva as her "hero," Stevie said, "Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight. If President Trump wins this election and puts the judge he wants in, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back-alley abortions."Amy Coney Barrett once signed a letter that called the Roe v. Wade decision “barbaric” and many people of all genders, like Nicks, have been expressing very real fears that her appointment to the court (which would push the balance of power farther right) may be very dangerous for anyone seeking an abortion in the near future.[video_embed id='2056943']BEFORE YOU GO: John Legend shares an emotional tribute to Chrissy Teigen [/video_embed]