This weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” mocked former President Trump’s position that abortion laws should be left up to each state.
“This week, Donald Trump said he supports abortion laws decided by states rather than the federal government.” SNL “Weekend Update” Co-host Michael Choi said: “But why stop there? Why not make it smaller and leave it to the counties and cities?”
“Or better yet, eliminate government altogether and leave women’s choices about what they can do with their bodies to the person who knows best what they can do to them: their husbands. That’s the thing,” he continued.
In a video statement released last week, President Trump said he was proud to have appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal nationwide.
However, he expressed support for exceptions to the abortion law that would allow abortion in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother’s life, and did not support banning abortions after 15 or 16 weeks. There wasn’t.
He also targeted what he called “radical Democrats” whom he claimed his party supported through the ninth month and beyond.
“In a Truth Social opinion piece, Donald Trump falsely stated that Democrats support abortion after 9 months of age and claimed that babies are executed at birth.” “Update” co-host Colin Jost quipped. “But he only thinks that happened because when Trump was a baby, a bunch of time travelers showed up and tried to kill him.”
The former president’s stance on state authority on the issue has drawn criticism from Democrats, with Trump claiming he stands with states that place strict restrictions on abortions and impose penalties on doctors who perform abortions. sparked a series of attacks.
On the other side of the aisle, some conservatives criticized President Trump’s choice to refuse to support a 15-week state abortion ban.
Late last week, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law that bars patients from obtaining abortions in nearly all cases. It would also jail doctors who illegally perform the procedure and override the state’s 15-week abortion limit.
Jost nodded at the state’s decision, telling the audience, “Reinstating the 1864 law is not the worst thing for me, because I am a white landowner and a proud Freemason.”
“It’s probably not a good idea to adopt the medical rules of the days when doctors only prescribed two things: prayer and cocaine…Saturdays and Sundays,” he continued. “Back then, if you didn’t want to keep the baby, your only option was to give it to Rumpelstiltskin.”
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