🐱 This Clown Made Some Good Points About Abortion

This Clown Made Some Good Points About Abortion

Cecily Strong as Goober the Clown discusses the abortion she had at 23.

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Thanks to states like Texas and Ohio, as well as the challenge to Roe v. Wadelooming on the Supreme Court docket, abortion has been in the news constantly over the past few months. To the degree that Saturday Night Live has now weighed in, sending in Goober the Clown(who had an abortion at 23) — Cecily Strong in a big red nose — to share her personal experience with the procedure on “Weekend Update.”

“People keep bringing it up, so I gotta talk about freakin’ abortion,” Strong says. “And I wish I didn’t have to do this, because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business. But that’s all some people in this country wanna discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in Clown v. Wade in 1973.” Strong went on to touch on lingering stigma that makes it hard to talk about her abortion — “If you were a clown who wasn’t a victim of something sad like clowncest, they think your clown abortion wasn’t a righteous clown abortion. I mean, what the dick is that?” — and the doctor who told her a joke during her appointment and the dinner party where she discovered “like eight other clowns at the table” had abortions, too, “and then everyone’s excited and relieved to be talking about it and then it’s like, Wow, we kept this secret for so long despite being so grateful it happened, honka honka honka.” Points for creative horn use.


Is it funny? That is a question for you to answer subjectively; personally I prefer this approach to a Handmaid’s Talecostume, for example, which is how SNLhas framed abortion in the past. In comparison, this feels unexpected if not necessarily hilarious, though I am not sure hilarity was the point. It’s just Strong, sounding frustrated and a little tired as she shares what is ostensibly her own story. It’s couched under a thin comedy veil in an effort to “make it more palatable” for touchy viewers and to normalize something that is at once already very normal but also rarefied by lawmakers who know nothing about it. Apparently the show has had some luckhelping to torpedo restrictive legislative bullshit in the past, so … never thought I’d say this, but hell yeah, clown.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

That segment should be aborted from history.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

That segment should be aborted from history.

It’s SNL. They’ve already been aborted since Chris Farley, Phil Hartman and Norm MacDonald passed away.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

In the words of the late Richard Nixon, this is some of the faggiest shit I've ever seen.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

This article is the greatest advocate for 4th trimester abortions I've ever encountered.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

Did Wedge finally hit the big time?

 

[Flexo]

Countdown to when it hits her that she torpedoed her only chance at being a mother...

 

[Super-Chevy454]

American Thinker also did an article about that SNL skit.

SNL's surreal skit promoting abortion

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent most of my life in heavily Democrat enclaves. That is why I know that when you boil things down to their essentials, most Democrat women and many Democrat men are single-issue voters, and t...

www.americanthinker.com

November 8, 2021

SNL's surreal skit promoting abortion​

By Andrea Widburg

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent most of my life in heavily Democrat enclaves. That is why I know that when you boil things down to their essentials, most Democrat women and many Democrat men are single-issue voters, and that issue is abortion. You can delicately bring them around to agree with you on subjects such as taxes, borders, national security, and keeping porn out of grade schools, but abortion is, as Nancy Pelosi said, "sacred ground." That's why they're panicked about the Texas abortion law and why Saturday Night Live did the single most weird, surreal, embarrassing, and scary skit ever...about "clown abortion."
The premise of the skit was that abortion is a serious subject but that Goober the Clown (SNL's Cecily Strong) would get people on board by doing funny clown stuff while talking about her abortion the day before she turned 23 and how great that was. The skit opened with some bland new face on SNL (which I haven't watched since, hmm, maybe the 1980s) as the newscaster saying the Supreme Court heard arguments about the Texas abortion law that effectively stops abortions after six weeks. "Here, to cheer us up," he says, is "Goober the Clown, who had an abortion when she was 23." Cue Strong, in full clown costume.

The sketch includes such unnerving lines as "it's a rough subject, so we're going to do fun clown stuff to make it more palatable" and "the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business but that's all some people want to discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in 1973 in Clown v. Wade," and "when they [clowns] do talk about it [abortion], if you were a clown who wasn't the victim of something sad like clowncest, they think your clown abortion wasn't a righteous abortion."
The skit continues in that macabre, bizarre vein for another two minutes. The line that most perfectly sums it up is when Cecily says she loved a joke her doctor made about the fact that she wasn't far along because it wasn't a "funny ha-ha joke but like a funny 'you're not an awful person and your life isn't over now' joke. The best kind."

And with that, the takeaway from the sketch isn't that abortion is a wonderful thing for women. Instead, even for those who most ardently advocate for abortion, it's a painful experience. Cecily Strong isn't strong at all. She's an angry, unhappy, brittle woman who knows that she did something wrong, and, rather than owning up to it, repenting, showing remorse, and trying to redeem herself, she is doubling down on the same thing that damaged her so much in the first place.

But I can tell you something else about abortion, having grown up in that milieu: the nascent child simply doesn't factor into it. It's all about the woman's emotional response to that pregnancy. Whether she's in school, has a burgeoning career, or is in a bad relationship, she fully understands that a pregnancy deprives her of good things or traps her in bad ones.

Abortion frees the woman from that moment, but it doesn't free her from that subliminal sense of having done something wrong. (Witness Alyssa Milano, a super-leftist, who believed that her miscarriages when she finally wanted a child were punishment for her abortions.) And that's how you get the Cecily Strong skit, with someone truly showing the tears of a clown. Ridi, Pagliaccio, ridi.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

This bitch will end up a bitter roastie and God has the last laugh

 

[Zero Day Defense]

"Are you sure this will make people laugh?"
"Laugh?"

“And I wish I didn’t have to do this, because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business. But that’s all some people in this country wanna discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in Clown v. Wade in 1973.”

Abortion wasn't legalized in Roe v. Wade. The legality of abortion prior to Roe v. Wade was determined on a state basis, but as a result of the Supreme Court verdict squashing and stretching the Constitution to its absolute limits finding that the "penumbra" of multiple amendments ensured a right for a woman to kill her child prior to him being born, all states must not ban or heavily restrict procedure.

...prior to the second trimester (or "point of viability", according to the superceding Planned Parenthood v. Casey). After that point, abortion restrictions are fair game. This is because the actual mind of SCOTUS was to balance "bodily autonomy" with the child's "right to life"-- in other words, they ended up drafting legislation from the bench and came up with something on the caliber of Dred Scott.

 

[Screw Danlon]

and the dinner party where she discovered “like eight other clowns at the table” had abortions, too

Most dinner parties I’ve been to usually only have 15-20 people at them, which would mean that at this dinner party - especially if it’s all couples - EVERY woman there had an abortion. Maybe move out of Slutsville.

 

[Haramburger]

I'm not against abortions. I think it's a valuable medical procedure & that it's valuable to society to have a number of doctors be experienced and proficient at it. But can it not be the first step in contraception? Is it asking so much that women(and men) use condoms, spermicidal creams, and the morning after pill first? Can there be just the barest modicum of preparation for intercourse, and the consideration for the consequences resulting from it? I'm fairly certain that I'm not the only one that thinks this way.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

“And I wish I didn’t have to do this, because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business.

But your vaccination stays isn't if you want to see SNL, right?

 

[Haramburger]

But your vaccination stays isn't if you want to see SNL, right?

Correct, studio audience members and gestating fetuses have no medical rights according to democrats. Rising celebrities on TV though, they are entitled to privacy, autonomy, and other privi legium, i.e. private laws.