Cecily Strong powerfully defends abortion rights in perfect 'SNL' Weekend Update appearance as a clown

Goober the Clown is ready to school you on abortion rights.
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Cecily Strong powerfully defends abortion rights in perfect 'SNL' Weekend Update appearance as a clown
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If you're gonna talk about abortion, you gotta make it "palatable". Enter: Goober the Clown.

Cecily Strong staunchly defended abortion rights on the SNL Weekend Update desk as Goober the Clown, who got an abortion at age 23. While poorly twisting balloon animals and squirting water from a flower, Strong poignantly hits on both the public perception and personal experience of clown (human) abortion.

With a fat pull from a helium balloon, she notes, "[Abortion] is going to happen, so it ought to be safe, legal, and accessible. We will not go back to the alley. The last thing anyone wants is a bunch of dead clowns in an alley."

Tell 'em, Goober!

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Jennimai Nguyen

Jennimai is a tech reporter at Mashable covering digital culture, social media, and how we interact with our everyday tech. She also hosts Mashable’s Snapchat Discover channel and TikTok, so she naturally spends way too much time scrolling the FYP and thinking about iPhones.


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