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Celeb School Game Show. Prince Auditions. Facebook Hearings Cold Open. Kim Kardashian West Monologue. The Dream Guy. Weekend Update: Facebook Under Fire. Jasmine and Aladdin. Lotto Drawing. Speaking as her character Goober the Clown, Strong shared a story of a woman seeking an abortion on the eve of her 23rd birthday.
In her new memoir "This Will All Be Over Soon," Strong is not explicit on whether she had an abortion but she does say that she was pregnant at 23 and soon after was "not pregnant anymore. Read More. CNN reached out to NBC to confirm if the performance was a telling of Strong's personal experience and has not heard back.
For decades, abortion has been a fraught issue. The controversy has become a larger topic of conversation recently in the wake of Texas' "heartbeat" law, which was signed into law on May 19 and essentially bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks into a pregnancy.
Many media commentators praised Strong's discussion, but those against abortion rights also spoke out online to call it a flippant take on a serious issue. Strong's buzz-drawing performance Saturday fell during a particularly relevant time, as Fridays and Saturdays are a busy time for abortion clinics, said Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and executive director of abortion storytelling organization We Testify.
There may have been a patient, lying in bed at home recovering from their procedure after a long day of being yelled at by protesters and waiting in a clinic, who turned on the show to relax, she said. Strong's appearance may have pulled a curtain back to show that the experience they underwent is shared by many, despite the secrecy and silence around it, Bracey Sherman said -- and it was just a start to the conversation.
The facts. When it comes to abortion, many people "don't even know how to talk to other clowns about it," and a lot of information doesn't get passed along, Strong said Saturday. She cited a statistic that 1 in 3 women will have an abortion over the course of her lifetime. Current data shows that it's actually an estimated 1 in 4 women of reproductive age in the United States, but she was right in her message, said Lauren Cross, a spokesperson for the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization that supports abortion rights.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Saying the presumably unsayable is often the milieu of male comics such as Joe Rogan whose Netflix special was called Triggered or Bill Burr whose last special was titled Paper Tiger. For the most part, comedy titan Saturday Night Live has sidestepped that tendency, sticking to its long-running habit of doing straightforward comedic imitations and letting the real-life, absurdist politics speak for themselves under cover of parody — until this past weekend.
Throughout the skit, Strong ineffectually tries to clown — her spinning bow tie winds up tilting vertically, her attempt at making a balloon animal results in failure, and her clown horn refuses to honk.
The clown conceit itself becomes increasingly flimsy and hard to maintain. The admission, tossed out as an aside, lands like a small explosion, a sobering release of tension. Rattling off her story in between fun clown gags, Strong discusses the unnecessary gravitas attached to the entire subject and the shame and stigmatizing effects it has on women.
The tone of the sketch shifts into a gentle reminder that the abortion debate impacts real people, human beings whose voices and stories are rarely heard as the war over their bodies rages on around them.
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