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The Natasha Crain Podcast

Yes, Saturday Night Live is Promoting Abortion in a Clown Outfit

The Natasha Crain Podcast

Natasha Crain

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong played a character called Goober the Clown who had an abortion when she was 23 and now talks to people about how normal abortion is in between clown jokes.

Every single one of us should be asking how on earth we, as a culture, have arrived at such a moment.

Here's my answer.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone it's Natasha Crane I've got a fairly short episode for you today because this is just going to be the audio

0:14.8

version of a blog post for this week but I wanted to make sure it was available to

0:19.3

those of you who prefer to listen through the podcast rather than just read, so I'm going to go ahead and record it.

0:24.7

But I do have a couple of announcements before we get to the main topic, just in case you've missed these

0:31.6

in other places.

0:32.6

So I announced last week on social media,

0:35.2

first of all, that my publisher is doing something awesome

0:38.8

as a pre-order bonus for my new book,

0:41.5

Faithfully Different. If you pre-order the book before

0:45.4

January 31st, so now is a good time to do that, if you pre-order it, you get the

0:51.6

audio book for free with it.

0:54.0

So this is really cool, and I think it's going to be especially of interest to those of you

0:58.0

who are listening to the podcast, because you like listening to stuff,

1:01.0

and really this is going to be like one long

1:04.1

multi-epsoed podcast series when you listen to the book because I'm going to be the

1:09.3

one reading it so I'm really excited about that I have had audiobook versions of my prior books, but I've never been the one to read them.

1:16.8

So this is going to be something really cool for me to do.

1:19.1

And I hope it'll be cool for you to be able to listen to the author rating it too.

1:23.4

So all you have to do to get the free audio book is pre-order a hard copy of the book through

1:30.0

whatever retailer you want to use.

1:31.8

You can get it on Amazon or Christian book Barnes and

1:33.9

Noble whatever you prefer and then there is a form a very brief form to fill out on

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