“There Is No Good News Around Roe in 2022”: Alison Leiby on Performing Oh God, a Show About Abortion

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“There Is No Good News Around Roe in 2022”: Alison Leiby on Performing Oh God, a Show About Abortion
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Alison Leiby's breakout comedy show, 'Oh God, a Show About Abortion,' takes on a sharp, new significance following the recent Roe v. Wade news: 'I would trade it all away in a second for this not to be what's happening.'

and posted to Instagram, “So, this is a MUST.” The show even had its own viral moment whenwas captured at the premiere having to show her vaccine card and photo ID to get in. It’s so popular that the show has already extended its run at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village until June 30.

I admit, I thought, Well, at least I’m not in as much immediate danger as someone who lives in Texas or Tennessee. You talk about telling your pro-choice mother about the abortion only when you started working on the show. Why is abortion still so hard to talk about? I grew up with a mother who had worked at Planned Parenthood and still didn’t tell her I had had an abortion in my 20s until over a decade later when I was planning to write about it.

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