Rock For Choice was founded in 1991 by L7 and The Feminist Majority. It was started to encourage the music community and young people to raise their voice and stand up for reproductive freedom. The First Rock For Choice concert took place on October 25, 1991 at the Palace in Los Angeles. It featured Nirvana, Hole, L7, and Sister Double Happiness. The show sold out, raising $15,000 for Rock For Choice. The money raised by Rock For Choice goes to the Feminist Majority's Becky Bell/Rosie Jamenez Campaing to lift parental consent laws and federal funding restrictions. A portion of the money also goes to the Foundation's National Clinic Defense Project and Emergency Clinic Survival Fund. These organizations both help women's health clinics, doctors, workers, and patients who are put in danger by anti-abortion extremists.

"You can go quietly or you can Rock For Choice!"


Quotes From Supporters of Rock For Choice



"We all strongly believe in choice being the woman's choice and not the governments."
-Selene Vigil (7 Year Bitch)

"Fear was our motivation for starting Rock For Choice. Just Picking up the newspaper everyday and reading about another peice of pro-choice legislation being put on the republican chopping block was enough."
-Jennifer Finch

"I think the shows demonstrate the strength we have in numbers and our refusal to be quiet and passive when it comes to our rights over our bodies."
-Elizabeth Davis (7 Year Bitch)

"It used to bum me out as a kid when I would go to peace or ERA rallies with my mother, and thre would be people singinf "Kum-Ba-Yah, my sister, Kum-Ba-Yah." It was so unmotivating. So we decided that we just had to rock the house. That was a good way to get more people involved, and if they didn't want to get involved at least we had their money."
-Donita Sparks (L7)