Sarah Silverman apologized for jokes she made about getting 'a quickie aborsh.' Sarah Silverman: I was not funny

On Tuesday night, comedian Sarah Silverman apologized for her jokes about abortion late last week.

She had posted a picture of herself with an inflated stomach, saying, “It’s a burrito!” only to later post another picture with a flat stomach with the caption, “Got a quickie aborsh in case R v W gets overturned.”


In her apology, Silverman tweeted:”It wasn’t funny for me to talk so casually about abortion. But when they take our right to choose away it will be HILARIOUS!” And: “The government should STAY OUT of our PRIVATE LIVES except when it comes to who we marry & what we do w our uteruses!!”

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It got her in some hot water. The Drudge Report drew attention to her tweets and the London’s Daily Mail accused Silverman of “joining America’s current War on Women” and “reigniting the women’s rights movement via Twitter.”

Some speculated that Silverman’s comment was designed to bring attention to a potential Romney administration.

“In the press about the photos, the gag has brought attention to the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s intentions to overturn the 1973 case that made abortion legal, Roe V. Wade,” wrote the Hollywood Reporter.

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The Wrap speculated that Silvermans’ joke could get her in professional trouble.

“Could Sarah Silverman’s ‘Abortion’ Tweet Hurt Her NBC Sitcom Odds?” read the article’s headline.

Silverman currently has a pilot before NBC (titled “Susan 313”) and The Wrap’s Tim Molloy writes:

“The pilot has a very strong chance of becoming a series when NBC makes its pilots decision this spring. It already has a put-pilot committment, which means NBC would have to pay a hefty penalty if it doesn’t air it. … NBC must know what it’s getting into with Silverman. Picking up the show will be a signal that the network is willing to deal with at least the possibility that she’ll say or do something controversial, on or off the air.”