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Final November, Cecily Robust dropped by “Weekend Replace” to ship one of the impressed desk items in Saturday Night time Stay historical past as a clown who felt she had no selection however to talk out concerning the abortion she had when she was 23 after Texas handed its six-week abortion ban.
A 12 months later, on the eve of the midterm elections and Roe v. Wade within the rearview mirror, Robust returned to one-up herself.
This time, the veteran SNL solid member was in character as “Tammy the Trucker, who guarantees she’s right here to speak about fuel costs and undoubtedly not abortion.”
“All I’m right here to speak about is fuel although the Supreme Court docket despatched Roe v. Wade to that huge pit cease within the sky,” she instructed Colin Jost. “50 years of precedent, beep, beep!”
Because the bit continued, Robust regularly dropped her character to open up about how the assault on abortion rights has been carrying on her.
“I'm simply attempting to get by way of this second, OK?” she defined. “Gasoline costs are up and households are hurting, however that’s not going to magically disappear irrespective of who you vote for. We’re in a world recession fueled by company greed and struggle, honk honk, breaker, breaker. However what is going to preserve disappearing is protected entry to abortion. It’s not likely magic as a result of they instructed us that’s what they’re going to do, they usually have been doing it.”
“I don’t wish to speak about abortion on reside TV or Peacock, no matter that counts as,” Robust joked. “However these are scary occasions, OK? As a result of they don’t wish to simply take away entry to well being care. They wish to criminalize it too. It’s so dangerous, us truck drivers are warning one another to delete our interval monitoring apps. I simply wish to know what week to put on my dangerous underwear, however I can’t in case some dickhead in Texas thinks my interval is proof of a criminal offense!”
By the tip of the phase, Robust was telling Jost, “The reality is, I've felt fairly helpless over the previous 12 months, and it’s arduous to know what to say to make different truckers really feel higher.”
“So right here’s one factor I can say,” she continued. “There’s one mother-trucking factor we will do to combat for mother-trucking freedom to make our personal healthcare choices, and that’s vote. And I hope to hell everybody votes. As a result of bear in mind, all of us love somebody who’s had an abortion—I imply, drives a truck, beep beep!”
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