The “Saturday Night Live” segment this weekend mocked former President Trump’s stance on abortion, asserting that states should be in charge of enacting laws governing the procedure.
Michael Che, the show’s co-host, said on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” that Donald Trump said this week that he supports the states deciding abortion laws instead of the federal government. “Why stop there? Why not make it even smaller and leave it to the counties or cities?”
“Or even better, take the government out of it completely and leave the choice about what women can do with their bodies to a person who knows what they could do with them the best—ttheir husbands,” he went on to say.
In a video address broadcast last week, Trump expressed his pride in appointing the Supreme Court judges who overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling, which had legalized abortion across the country.
However, he expressed support for exceptions to abortion regulations that would allow them to be used in situations of rape, incest, or to save a mother’s life, and he opposed a ban on abortions after 15 or 16 weeks.
He also targeted “radical Democrats,” stating that the party supports them up to and beyond the ninth month.
“In a view on Truth Social, Donald Trump falsely said that Democrats support abortion up to the ninth month and beyond, saying the baby is executed at birth,” “Weekend Update” Colin Jost, the show’s co-host, commented. “But he only thinks that happens because when Trump was a baby, a bunch of time travelers showed up trying to kill him.”
The previous president’s stance on state control over abortion provoked a flurry of attacks from Democrats, who said Trump was supporting states that had implemented extreme abortion restrictions and punished doctors who performed the operation.
On the opposite side of the aisle, several conservatives lambasted Trump for declining to support a countrywide 15-week abortion ban.
Later last week, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 statute that prohibits patients from having abortions in almost all situations. It also imprisons doctors who illegally conduct the surgery and supersedes the state’s 15-week abortion ban.
Jost nodded in agreement with the state’s decision, telling the crowd, “Now reinstating laws from 1864 isn’t the worst thing for me because I’m a white landowner and a proud Freemason.”
“It’s probably not great to adopt health care rules from a time when doctors prescribed only prayer and cocaine…””Saturday and Sunday,” he added. “Back then, if you didn’t want to keep your baby, your only option was to give it to Rumpelstiltskin.”
