"Daily Show" celebrates abortion ruling: "Go knock someone up in Texas!"

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"The Daily Show" celebrated Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a Texas law curtailing who can perform abortions and where they can be done with a tweet saying, "Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas!"

Credit: Jennifer Brett

Credit: Jennifer Brett

Twitters' response was basically .. "wow. really?"

The show later followed up with a tweet saying they weren't promoting abortions, just the right to have one.

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