‘SNL’ Added to its Blessedly Rich History of Tackling Abortion
On Saturday night, "Weekend Update" took on Trump's deceptive comments on leaving abortion to the states as well as Arizona's state Supreme Court deciding to reinstate an 1864 abortion ban.
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This weekend, Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost and Michael Che took on several abortion-related developments during “Weekend Update.” And they were funny! Che addressed Trump’s nonsense video message from April 8, where he stated that, in lieu of a national abortion ban, the issue should be left up to the states…which is the current, awful state of things. “This week, Donald Trump said that he supports abortion laws being decided by the states instead of the federal government. But why stop there? Why not go even smaller and leave it up to the counties or the city?” Che said. “Or even better, take the government out of it completely and leave the choice about what women can do with their bodies and a person who knows what they could do with them the best—their husbands.” The joke strikes at the heart of why Trump’s latest stance, and the GOPs platform in general, is bullshit—namely how they preach about small government unless it involves a woman’s control over her own body.
The duo then joked about Trump’s false, sensational claim that Democrats want abortions through the ninth month of pregnancy, which is simply not a thing. “Donald Trump falsely said that Democrats support abortion up to the ninth month and beyond, saying the baby is executed at birth,” Jost said. “But he only thinks that happens because when Trump was a baby, a bunch of time travelers showed up trying to kill him.” Nice.
“Weekend Update” also took on the Civil War-era abortion ban that Arizona’s state Supreme Court recently ruled could take effect. “Reinstating laws from 1864 isn’t the worst thing for me, because I’m a white landowner …and a proud Freemason. But it’s probably not great to adopt healthcare rules from a time when the only two things doctors prescribed were prayer and cocaine—Saturday and Sunday,” Jost joked. “Back then, if you didn’t want to keep your baby, your only option was Rumpelstiltskin.” He also threw in a joke about President Biden’s age. “President Biden criticized the abortion law, calling it cruel, which is the same he said when he voted against it in 1864.”