I personally found this quite funny, and liked the way it poked fun at certain draconian attitudes.

Sadly, it looks like just the sort of thing that pro-lifers would use as "evidence" that anyone who is pro-choice takes abortion really lightly like the girl in the film. That's not what it's saying at all - but it could be used in that way.

So "maybe".

Posted by: Abi | September 26, 2007 4:30 PM

I think it's hilarious. It's poking fun at pro-abortionists by showing that no one like to have an abortion or fondly look back on it.

Posted by: Isabelle | September 26, 2007 5:01 PM

I agree that this video is hilarious. Silverman is not poking fun at the act of women having an abortion, but rather, in my opinion, the outrageous claims that pro-lifers make about women who have abortions.

Posted by: Megan | September 26, 2007 5:19 PM

Yea, the montage is funny as as Megan already pointed out, it's making fun of the 'women use abortion as contraception' argument, not the fact that women have abortions.

Posted by: Carter-Ann | September 26, 2007 6:18 PM

Resolved: it's funny.

It would maybe be funny too if the opening group thearpy session was expanded a little, maybe to drop some psychobabble about addiction and recovery and codependence and such, describing the session as an anti-abortion support group, maybe. But still the sequences with her coming and going to the clinic, seeing the doctor and the receptionist, and being greeted in a joking, "whoops, you again" manner would be funnier.

And if the pro-lifers can't take a joke, well, f... don't have sex with 'em. Yeah, that's how we'd put it. Maybe Sarah would have something stronger to say, but coming from her, it would sound funny anyway.

Posted by: southern students for choice - Athens | September 26, 2007 11:03 PM

I just don't find Sarah Silverman's sense of humour up my alley. I think she's a great, stable person, but her jokes and her show are just lame to me, and the "abortion montage" isn't much of an exception.

A member of my family has had an abortion, and she has had a lot of negative experiences in her life relating to it. I guess because of that fact alone is a reason why I don't particularly find abortion jokes funny. However, I'm not going to find anything wrong with people who do.

For example, this one night my boyfriend got really drunk and vomited all over my bed while he was trying to climb into it, and after the anger subsided, I spent a long time joking about it. He, however, is still really embarrassed by it. So you know, not everything is funny to everybody.

Posted by: Rebecca | September 27, 2007 3:36 PM