This song caused some controversy because the title implies it has something to do with abortion, but it's actually about a totally different topic: cocaine! "It's about how we didn't do cocaine, and we didn't want to do cocaine," singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger explained in a Songfacts interview. "It was a manifesto against me doing drugs. And you know what? I didn't do drugs throughout our entire band because I had a manifesto to stick to. So, that song was to help me."
The song opens with a synthesized voice that says: La cocaina no es buena para su salud la cocaina is not good for you This was done using a basic text-to-speech program on a computer.
The electronic group Crystal Castles, which like Death From Above 1979 is from Canada, sampled the "la cocaina no es buena" part for their 2008 song "Untrust Us."
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