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- Life begins the first
time you're on Instagram.

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As soon as you post your baby
on Instagram, that's a baby.

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I'm Alison Leiby.

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And I'm currently
performing my show, "Oh God"

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a show about abortion at
the Cherry Lane Theater.

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It's about abortion, (laughing)

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my abortion.

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I think I knew it was going to be funny

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as soon as I called Planned Parenthood

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and after I told them I needed an abortion

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the woman asked me, are you pregnant?

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(laughing)
I was like,

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Oh, do people call before they even know?

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They're just like sleeping with someone

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and they're like, you know what?

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I'm gonna get ahead of this.

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Abortion, and I think
like stuff that happens

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to women's bodies in general,

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like crowds are like, I don't know.

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I don't really wanna hear about this.

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Like mostly because it gets
like policed and politicized

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in a way that makes everyone uncomfortable

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and that women aren't
supposed to be like gross

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or sexual or anything, except
for like hot and fuckable.

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Roe V. Wade is like
already on its way out.

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I just did this show, before I started it

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I did it in Texas for three nights.

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I mean, Austin, not Texas,
but it's still Texas.

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And obviously like the people that came

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were like on board,
wanted to hear about it,

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interested in the topic,
supporters of abortion rights

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but I could feel things
be different with them

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than it has been performing it in New York

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or like the little chunks I've done in LA.

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And I was talking to somebody
after and they were like,

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yeah, like we love it.

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This was amazing.

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It's so important.

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But also like, it's so raw here

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and like, we like can't
get abortions anymore.

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Six weeks.

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I couldn't have had my abortion in Texas,

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like the Six-week ban

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would've eliminated my ability to do it.

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By the time I found out I was
pregnant it was seven weeks.

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You can feel the tension there
of people wanting to laugh

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and being on board and
agreeing and connecting

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but still feeling the realness of

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those rights being taken away.

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There's just something about
having to conceal parts

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of yourself as a woman that is unpleasant.

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And the more we can talk about it

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if I can open that
conversation up then great.

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(bright upbeat music)