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This weekend, Saturday Night Live (SNL) cast member Cecily Strong appeared in a skit during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, defending abortion while playing a character named Goober the Clown. Oddly, the character of Goober appeared to have been modeled after a clown appearing in a children’s show titled “The Big Comfy Couch<\/a>,” a strange choice for a rant about abortion.<\/p>\n

Appearing alongside Colin Jost, Strong was introduced to discuss Whole Woman\u2019s Health et al. v. Jackson et al.<\/em>, the Supreme Court case which will decide the fate of the Texas Heartbeat Act, with Jost’s introduction repeatedly noting that “Goober the Clown” had an abortion when she was 23.<\/p>\n

“I had an abortion the day before my 23rd birthday!\u201d she began. “Well, actually, I really don\u2019t [want to talk about abortion]. But people keep bringing it up, so I gotta keep talking about freaking abortion. But it\u2019s a rough subject, so we\u2019re gonna do fun clown stuff to make it more palatable. Whee! Hey, who wants a balloon animal? You want a giraffe? … And I wish I didn\u2019t have to do this because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business. But that\u2019s what some people in this country wanna discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in Clown v. Wade in 1973.”<\/p>\n

After failing to make a balloon animal, Strong continued to say how common abortion allegedly is.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you know that one in three clowns will have an abortion in her lifetime?\u201d she asked. \u201cYou don\u2019t, because they don\u2019t tell you. They don\u2019t even know how to talk to other clowns about it, because when they do talk about it, if you were a clown who wasn\u2019t the victim of something sad like clown-cest, they think your clown abortion wasn\u2019t a \u2018righteous clown abortion.\u2019 I mean, what the d*ck is that?!\u201d<\/p>\n

After that, Jost chastised her, saying they couldn’t use profanity on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, Colin, we\u2019re having fun \u2014 just laugh, pull my finger,” she said. “Laugh! I need it! I need you to laugh so hard, like the way I laughed when the doctor asked if I got pregnant on my way over to the clinic because I wasn\u2019t very far along. Not like a funny-haha joke, but like, in a funny, you\u2019re not an awful person and your life isn\u2019t over joke. A-honka honka!\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Strong claimed that abortion allowed her to have a successful career as a comedian… where she joked about abortion on national television.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s my truth,” she said. “I know I wouldn\u2019t be a clown on TV here today if it weren\u2019t for the abortion I had the day before my 23rd birthday. Clowns have been helping each other end their pregnancies since the caves. It\u2019s gonna happen so it oughta be safe, legal and accessible. We will not go back to the alley. I mean, the last thing anyone wants is a bunch of dead clowns in a dark alley.\u201d<\/p>\n