“I’m happy to report that same clown is now very happily pregnant from IVF at 40.”
“Did you know one in three clowns will have a clown abortion in their lifetime?”
she asked the audience.
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“You don’t, because they don’t tell you.
They don’t even know how to talk to other clowns about it.
It’s going to happen, so it ought to be safe, legal, and accessible.”
Cecily Strong as Goober the Clown on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Saturday Night Live
Strong said her colleagues atSNLoffered her overwhelming support at the time.
“And luckily… right away, the show was very supportive.
I think it was the only thing I’ve ever done where I haven’t had any notes.
I don’t think anybody wanted to give us notes.”
“It’s kind of insane and scary to disclose all of this,” she wrote on Instagram.
“But for me it’s much scarier to think about what could happen after Tuesday’s election.
It does, however, outline a strategy for pulling the abortion pill mifepristone from the market.
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The comedian went on to recall her experiences with reproductive health care.
“I’ve been in lots of waiting rooms with other women throughout my life,” she wrote.
Some look as simply dumbstruck-happy to be there as me as Forrest Gump on my transfer day.
But the one thing nobody in those rooms has ever looked is unable to make her own decisions.”
Strong ended her message by urging her followers to vote in favor of reproductive rights.
