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This story appears in VICE magazine and Noisey's 2017 Music Issue. Click HERE to subscribe to VICE magazine.One day in early September, I logged on to social media and discovered an avalanche of shares of the same short video. The clip in question features the British Conservative Party politician Jacob Rees-Mogg appearing on the Piers Morgan breakfast TV vehicle Good Morning Britain. In it, Rees-Mogg expounds on his total opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape. Life, he says, is "sacrosanct."Many consider Rees-Mogg to be a likely candidate for the future leadership of the Conservative Party, and therefore for UK prime minister. His personal views on abortion directly oppose that of huge swaths of the population he may one day lead. From the defunding of Planned Parenthood in the US to the growing prominence of the right-wing, anti-choice Democratic Unionist Party in the UK, we seem to be surrounded at every turn by attacks on women's reproductive rights. Amid this suffocating environment, I've been finding a lot of comfort in music by women who sing candidly about fucking—especially when they've got electric guitars slung around themselves like AK-47s.Continue reading on Noisey.