Warning: Demi Lovato’s ‘Swine’ is a Rage-Filled Anthem Against Life
By Movieguide® Contributor
Demi Lovato’s new song “Swine,” is an obscenity-filled song expressing the singer’s rage against people who value life in the womb.
“Swine” released exactly one year after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, ruling that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, screams Lovato’s view on why the government doesn’t have the right to govern a woman’s body.
Lovato advocates for the right to have sex whenever with whoever without any repercussions or consequences. Afterwards, she states that if anyone tries to make her deal with the consequences of her actions, they are reducing her to the level of swine.
She says in the chorus, “My life, my voice/My rights, my choice/’It’s mine or I’m just swine/My blood, my loins/My lungs, my noise/It’s mine, or I’m just swine.”
Lovato takes everything to the next level in her second verse, saying, “Picture your faith, imagine your God and even your Holy Bible/Is suddenly banned, do you understand?/Now doesn’t that sound entitled?/It’s your book, but it’s my survival.”
Likening abortion to religion, Lovato claims that her religious right to an abortion was stripped by the reversal of Roe V. Wade, but should be protected under the Bill or Rights just as Christians have their religion protected.
Further making herself a victim in the second half of the verse she says, “We gotta grow ‘em, we gotta raise ‘em, we gotta feed and bathe em’/And if you won’t they call you a witch to burn at the stake in Salem/Thought by now they’d change, but we’re still waiting.”
Pro-lifers have been quick to point out the narcissism and demonic influences that culminated in the creation of this song.
“She says that if she can’t choose to have an abortion, then she’s just swine. She’s just a pig. I think it’s very interesting that she chooses that terminology, that she chooses that word,” Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey said in a recent episode. “We see pigs used a lot in Scripture as an example of being unclean. And I think specifically of the story in Mark 5 when Jesus casts the demons out of the man who is wandering in the cemetery.”
“It just seems a little bit comparable here. It seems like that’s kind of what’s going on. These are demonic ideas. She’s calling herself a swine, of all things because she can’t have an abortion. These are definitely pig-like assertions that she’s making,” she continued. “Like she is basically glorifying selfishness. She’s glorifying this kind of crass, promiscuous lifestyle where she should be able to choose what she wants to do, whatever she feels like doing in any moment, no matter the consequences that have to be endured by other people.”
Several movies have expressed strong pro-life opinions to counter the narrative in Hollywood that abortion is the only answer.
Tracy Robinson, a former pro-abortion Christian, shared how her convictions changed in THE MATTER OF LIFE.
“The truth struck me,” Robinson said. “That evening, I felt the vision to make this message into a feature-length documentary that was downloaded to me. I knew there were so many young adults in my shoes who deserved to be informed but never were — perhaps they attended public school and neither their family nor their church ever broached the topic.”
Robinson said that once her view changed, she learned about how abortion became legalized.
“I didn’t know about Roe v. Wade or the truth behind Planned Parenthood. In reading books and watching Youtube, I discovered a multi-faceted pro-life movement and many powerful and redeeming stories therein,” she said. “And I wanted to tell that story, too.”
Lovato’s lyrics remind Christians why we must remain vigilant in the fight for life.
As Movieguide® previously reported:
In 2021, Abortion Onscreen says there were “47 abortion plotlines on 42 television shows, with a mix of familiar demographic patterns, insights into what meaningful emotional support to loved ones having abortions looks like, and significant missed opportunities to depict the hardships that result from diminished access.
“Depictions of abortion restrictions remain largely absent on television, an omission that is particularly egregious when considering that a majority of patients face at least one logistical or financial obstacle when obtaining an abortion. Only two television plotlines depicted significant barriers to abortion access. In a flashback on The Handmaid’s Tale, Janine inadvertently visits an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center, where she receives misinformation about the safety of abortion. When she later visits a legitimate clinician, she is forced to listen to a legallyrequired but medically inaccurate script, which the abortion provider immediately debunks before providing her with abortion pills. On This is Us, a teenaged Kate goes through a mandatory waiting period before accessing her abortion in 1999-era Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” the study continued.
“While these stories are important in their inclusion of any barriers, they were easily surmounted by both characters. There were no shows that depicted a character lacking insurance coverage for abortion, needing to raise money towards the cost of an abortion, scrambling to arrange childcare or take off work in order to obtain one, or the myriad other logistical and financial hurdles facing such patients in reality. Close to half (40%) of this year’s depictions were disclosures of past abortions, which may help explain this lack of current political context — although such barriers are not new. If storytellers want to respond to our current political moment, they must fully engage with the reality of what dwindling access looks like now for many Americans,” according to the group.
Given how much media influences reality, this should be welcome news. The power of prayer combined with movies like DIVIDED HEARTS OF AMERICA, OCTOBER BABY and GOSNELL: THE TRIAL OF AMERICA’S BIGGEST SERIAL KILLER, among more than a dozen others, prove that our nation’s heart can be changed.
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