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Olivia Rodrigo, Lily Allen, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion and more singers used their platforms at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend to protest Friday's Supreme Court ruling that Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion. 

The watershed decision overturned Roe v. Wade and erased reproductive rights in place for nearly five decades. 

In the court's most closely watched and controversial case in years, a majority of the justices held that the right to end a pregnancy was not found in the text of the Constitution nor the nation's history. 

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Taking the stage on Saturday at the U.K. festival in southwest England, Rodrigo told the thousands watching she is "devastated and terrified."

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"So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this," she added.

Introducing her next song, Rodrigo said, "This song goes out to the justices: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh. We hate you!” 

She then was joined by Allen in a surprise appearance to perform Allen's 2009 hit "(Expletive) You." The single was a reaction to political adversaries in the U.S. and U.K. when it debuted. 

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Megan Thee Stallion calls home state Texas' abortion ban 'embarassing'

Megan Thee Stallion, who is from Texas, called the state's abortion ban in 2021 "embarrassing" and led a chant against SCOTUS.

The law, called S.B. 8, allows private citizens to sue any individual who assists a woman in an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, even in cases of rape and incest. This includes partners who support the abortion process, friends who post tips online on where to get abortions and Uber drivers who take women to abortion clinics. It also includes the doctors who perform the abortion itself.

"Now, y'all know it wouldn't be me if I didn't take a second to call out these stupid men," Megan told the Glastonbury crowd Sunday. "What else you want? Texas really embarrassing me right now, y'all know that's my home state."

The "Hot Girl Summer" rapper prompted the crowd to boo as she gave a thumbs down towards the legislation.

She added that her supporters do not support the legislation "that y'all campaigning for" in Texas. "My body, my (expletive) choice," she said as the crowd joined in.

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Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, more react to the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade ruling

Eilish, Glastonbury's Friday headliner, dedicated her song "Your Power" to SCOTUS judges who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

"The song we’re about to do is, I think, one of the favorites that we’ve written and it’s about the concept of power and how we need to always remember how not to abuse it,” she said. “And today is a really, really dark day for women in the U.S. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer in this moment.”

Meanwhile, Phoebe Bridgers led an explicit chant against the "irrelevant" Supreme Court Friday for "telling us what to do with our (expletive) bodies."

British singer and Idles frontman Joe Talbot took the stage on Friday and said the U.S. is going "back to the Middle Ages."

Talbot dedicated Idles song "Mother" to all impacted by the SCOTUS decision, telling the crowd, "This is for every mother and every woman and her right to choose whether she wants to be a mother or not. Long live the open minded. Long live my mother and long live every single one of you."

Kendrick Lamar gave a visually intense performance of his song "Savior" Sunday, wearing a thorned crown on his head with blood dripping down his face. At the end of the song, Lamar repeated: "They judge you, they judged Christ, godspeed for women's rights."

The lyrics "godspeed for women's rights" was an add-on following the Roe v. Wade overturn.

Lorde gave a speech at the end of her performance of "Secrets From a Girl (Who’s Seen It All)." "Welcome to sadness," the New Zealand singer began Sunday. “The temperature is unbearable until you face it. You wanna know a secret, girls? Your bodies were destined to be controlled and objectified since before you were born. That horror is your birthright."

"Here’s another secret – you possess ancient strength, ancient wisdom. Wisdom that has propelled every woman who came before you. That wisdom is your birthright. I ask you today, make accessing that wisdom your life’s work, because everything depends on that," Lorde added, before cursing out SCOTUS.

'We will not go back': Selena Gomez, Megan Thee Stallion, more support Roe v. Wade in NYT ad

Rodrigo, Bridgers, Megan Thee Stallion and Eilish are among more than 150 celebrities and influencers who signed a petition last month to show they don't support the high court overturning Roe v. Wade after a draft opinion from the Supreme Court leaked.

Their names were listed in an full-page ad in The New York Times as part of Planned Parenthood's Bans Off Our Bodies campaign. Also included were Ariana DeBose, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, Halsey, Kendall Jenner, Miley Cyrus, Shawn Mendes, Selena Gomez and Tommy Dorfman.

"Our power to plan our own futures and control our own bodies depends on our ability to access sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion," the ad read. "We will not go back – and we will not back down."

Contributing: John Fritze, Michelle Shen, Amy Haneline and Hannah Yasharoff

1 of 32 Photos in Gallery©Mandel Ngan, AFP via Getty Images

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion, more speak out at Glastonbury after Roe v. Wade ruling