{"id":98016,"date":"2016-06-02T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98016"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:22:03","slug":"jewish-actress-natasha-leggero-great-thing-about-judaism-is-abortions-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98016","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Actress Natasha Leggero: Great Thing About Judaism is \u201cAbortions are Cool\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox Jews regard abortion as killing (though not as bad as killing the born).<\/p>\n<p>Conservative rabbi: &#8220;There is nothing more Jewish than abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/06\/02\/jewish-actress-natasha-leggero-great-thing-about-judaism-is-abortions-are-cool\/\">REPORT<\/a>: During his show May 26, Conan O\u2019Brien invited actress and recent Judiaism convert Natasha Leggero onto his show. Leggero praised her new religion for treating abortion as \u201ccool\u201d enough to have on \u201cevery Jewish holiday.\u201d After all, she reasoned, it\u2019s good to have a back-up to fall on, just like AAA for cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/natashaleggero.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/natashaleggero-300x190.png\" alt=\"natashaleggero\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/natashaleggero-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/natashaleggero.png 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides performing as a stand-up comedian, the 42-year-old created and stars in Comedy Central\u2019s Another Period and has acted in films including Let\u2019s Be Cops, Neighbors and He\u2019s Just Not That Into You.<\/p>\n<p>After discussing her recent marriage, Leggero informed Conan that she had recently converted to Judaism by taking 19 four-hour courses.<\/p>\n<p>Raised Catholic, Leggero slammed her former Catholic school run by \u201cmean\u201d nuns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]aybe they hate women, because nuns were so mean to me,\u201d she said before slyly inserting, \u201cand of course, the priests are like so nice to the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She found Judaism, on the other hand, a \u201cbeautiful religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get to have a weekly Shabbat,\u201d she gushed, \u201cwhich is just like a party every Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of her appearance, Leggero revealed just why she was such a fan of Judaism: abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re part of this beautiful religion seeped in culture,\u201d she gushed about her new religion, before adding, \u201cAbortions are cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the audience laughed, Conan disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they go around saying \u2018abortions are cool,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cNot like the Fonz\u201d (a famously \u201ccool\u201d character from Happy Days).<\/p>\n<p>His sidekick, Andy Richter, prompted even more laughter by commenting, \u201cThat\u2019s on the PSA, \u2018Judaism: Abortion is cool.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trying to regain control of the abortion conversation, Conan again started to say no one called abortion \u201ccool,\u201d when Leggero interrupted, \u201cNo, they do!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you could get an abortion on every Jewish holiday and it would be okay,\u201d she hyped.<\/p>\n<p>But when Leggero likened abortion to a contract with a towing company, the audience changed its tune towards her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying I am going to get an abortion but, you know, it\u2019s just nice to \u2013 it\u2019s like AAA. Like, you\u2019re not going to use all those tows, but \u2013 no, it\u2019s just nice to know \u2013\u201d she stumbled as some in the audience booed. Video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/161916\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>he cheers and applause returned when Conan said, \u201cI just was given a signal; the Jews don\u2019t want you anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t clap that,\u201d she retorted. \u201cMy rabbi would be very upset by that. No, I love Judaism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She switched back to her bashing of Catholicism, the religion where \u201cthey believe that even if you are raped, you should not get an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight?\u201d she checked. \u201cThis is my comedy act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Changing topics (somewhat), Leggero told Conan that she confessed to a priest in Rome that she was converting. He was \u201ccool\u201d about it, she said, and asked her to still attend to church once a year.<\/p>\n<p>Conan concluded, \u201cI don\u2019t know what religion you\u2019re going to be in a year, but it will not be either Jewish or Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leggero has long made abortion a topic of her career. In 2013, she asked in a Facebook post, \u201cWhat are the most popular abortion names?\u201d while in 2014 she tweeted that she would \u201cno longer perform in states where abortion isn\u2019t legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Comedy Central\u2019s 2015 Roast of Justin Bieber Leggero laughed about Bieber\u2019s (non-existent) close call with abortion as he sat next to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin was born to a teenage single mom. No wonder he\u2019s got moves. He was in the womb dodging a coat hanger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox Jews regard abortion as killing (though not as bad as killing the born). Conservative rabbi: &#8220;There is nothing more Jewish than abortion.&#8221; REPORT: During his show May 26, Conan O\u2019Brien invited actress and recent Judiaism convert Natasha Leggero onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98024,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98016\/revisions\/98024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}