A 28-year-old Swedish pop singer most Americans couldn’t pick out of a lineup just handed the pro-life movement its best talking point in years — and she did it for free, on TikTok, because she thought it was funny. Zara Larsson, famous in America primarily because a figure skater used her song at the Olympics last month, responded to a fan’s post bragging about aborting her baby after a concert by writing, “I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance purrrrrr.”
The Left has spent years insisting that nobody celebrates abortion. That talking point is now dead.
The fan — posting under @honeyhazelwood — shared a concert video with the caption: “I didn’t know I was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear Midnight Sun before I aborted it.” Most normal people read that and felt their stomach drop. Larsson read it and thought: content opportunity.
A fan joked online that she aborted her baby after attending a Zara Larsson concert. The singer replied: “I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance, purrr.”
Speaking about babies this way is demonic. The normalization of abortion’s violence is evil,…
— Students for Life of America | Pro-Life Gen (@StudentsforLife) March 4, 2026
The TikTok comments then became a full open-mic night for people who have lost the plot entirely. “The baby never saw the sun but at least it saw Midnight Sun,” one person typed. Another offered: “It was to die for.” These are real things real humans wrote on a public internet. With their actual fingers.
Larsson didn’t just comment — she reposted the whole exchange to her own TikTok. Branding! Engagement! Healthcare!
When the predictable backlash arrived, Larsson defended herself with the kind of airtight moral philosophy you can only develop after winning Sweden’s version of Got Talent at age ten.
“That’s funny. I don’t know what to say — that’s funny. Sorry if you don’t have humor,” she explained to the normals.
She also made sure we understood the deeper therapeutic purpose of abortion comedy. “I feel like by joking about stuff like that, which is a ‘serious topic,’ it also makes it something that we can just talk about,” Larsson said. “It doesn’t have to be taboo. It doesn’t have to be this bad thing that women do.”
She signed off the philosophical treatise with “Mwah!”
If you’re celebrating abortions, you’ve lost the plot….
— BM – ster (@bm_ster) March 4, 2026
Points, briefly, for consistency: Larsson did acknowledge that more sex education and better access to birth control might reduce the need for abortion. Fine. She immediately followed that up by explaining it’s “human nature” to want to have sex and that “doesn’t mean you have to have a baby because of it.” Which is a perfectly good argument for the birth control she just mentioned — not for treating a pregnancy like a one-star Yelp review of your own body.
The reaction from actual pro-choice women was not the sisterhood solidarity Larsson was probably hoping for. “I’m pro-choice, but what a horrendous thing to say,” wrote one. “This is disgusting no matter your views,” said another. One fan deleted all of Larsson’s music from her library. That’s the kind of fan engagement that doesn’t show up in the Spotify metrics.
Students for Life of America called the whole thing “demonic.” Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck said Larsson had to be “possessed by an actual demon” to think it was funny. Even pro-choice commentators pointed out that millions of little girls look up to Zara Larsson — and this is what she’s modeling for them.
Remember “no one celebrates abortion”? Yeah. About that.
This is not Larsson’s first rodeo in the deliberate controversy business. She skipped Eurovision last year because Israel was competing. She posts inflammatory content for engagement. She picks fights she knows will generate headlines. There is a pattern here, and the pattern is: provocateur cosplaying as activist, using manufactured outrage as a promotional strategy for an album called Midnight Sun — a concept album about, and we cannot stress this enough, the warmth and beauty of a Swedish summer.
A children’s book calling abortion a “superpower” is making the rounds in the same news cycle. You genuinely cannot keep up with how fast the Overton window moves when nobody is minding the door.
Somewhere out there, a pro-life activist is designing a poster right now. They won’t need to write much. Just print the quote and let Zara do the rest.
