Posted on 04/21/2024 9:04:24 PM PDT by Morgana
“Saturday Night Live” joked about abortion last weekend during its “Weekend Update” segment, focusing the ‘joke’ specifically on Arizona’s recent state Supreme Court decision to allow a longstanding pro-life law, put in place in 1864 to go into effect.
“Reinstating laws from 1864 isn’t the worst thing for me, because I’m a white landowner,” co-host Colin Jost said. “And a proud Freemason.” Jost, who is white, and co-host Michael Che, who is Black, have a running racism joke between them with Che often joking that Jost is racist.
“But it’s probably not great to adopt healthcare rules from a time where the only two things doctors prescribed were prayer and cocaine — Saturday and Sunday,” said Jost. “Back then, if you didn’t want to keep your baby, your only option was to give it to Rumpelstiltskin.”
He added, “President Biden criticized the abortion law, calling it cruel, which is the same Biden said when he voted against it in 1864.”
While this was a poke at Biden’s age, in 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, Biden was a new senator. At that time, he said he thought the ruling went too far and that a woman didn’t have “the sole right to say what should happen to her body” while pregnant.
Believe it or not, Biden supported laws preventing the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions — and, according to National Review, even wrote his own ‘Biden Amendment” to ban federal funding for foreign abortion research. The New York Times stated that as a senator, Biden also voted for a constitutional amendment to allow states to overturn Roe back in 1982.
So… perhaps if Biden had been around in 1864, he may have been in support of Arizona’s pro-life law, since his stance on abortion has clearly devolved over the decades.
As to whether a law from 1864 should be removed from the books simply because of its age — it’s a ridiculous concept.
Murder has been illegal in the United States since the new nation first made laws — because the taking of human life has always been considered immoral and always should be considered immoral. The U.S. makes an exception when it comes to human beings in the womb — which doesn’t make their willful killings morally acceptable, just legal.
It was in 1864 that the Senate took the first step in abolishing slavery in the United States by passing the 13th Amendment — the same year the Arizona law was written. So a law’s age doesn’t automatically make it bad law… does it, SNL?
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What makes a law bad is its immorality, and laws allowing the killing of innocent and defenseless human beings are immoral — and cruel.
The most commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure involves the use of a Sopher clamp to grip down on the baby’s legs and arms and pull with force to tear them off the baby. In March of 2022, the bodies of children who were put through this horrific procedure at a Washington, D.C. abortion facility were discovered in a medical waste bin. Their pictures are below.
Che and Jost continued with abortion jokes pointed at Donald Trump, including Trump’s current stated opinion that laws about whether to allow or prevent the killing of preborn human beings should be left up to the states.
The truth is that human rights shouldn’t be up for a vote at any level of government. Human rights, including the right to life, should be protected — and the 14th Amendment does just that.
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SNL has been nothing but democrap talking points for a long time; hence the obscure political references in all their skits.
SNL hasn’t been funny since Phil Hartman was murdered.
Do I know what else passed in 1864?
I’m going to guess last successful cast member drug test?
There was a law on the books in Massachusetts forbidding Indians (meaning native Americans) from spending the night in Boston. Goes back to King Phillip’s War. It was only repealed in the 21st Century. Progress! I am not sure how forcefully it was enforced. Many of Massachusetts’s statutes predate the Revolution.
Thinking about it, the law was in force in the 1990's when Elizabeth Warren, a self-identified Cherokee, was often was in Boston after sunset. Regardless of DNA, she identified as Indian, and had full mens res to openly and flagrantly violate the law. Obviously this threat to the rule of law and OurDemocracy™ cannot be allowed to stand! A violation of Norms!
My third-great grandfather from Dandrige Tennessee fought in the Cherokee Wars. My family knows the horror of these savages' heartless assaults!
You can only imagine my disappointment when I learned that Senator Warren had no significant Native-American DNA, and my ancestors probably never oppressed hers.
Colin Jost plays the role of the 21st Century white Stepin Fetchit.
In 1864 Arizona wasn’t even a state. On Feb. 14, 1912, Arizona joined the United States as the 48th state.
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I see this so often now days. I remember when the tabloids ran front page photos of brutal blood and guts mob murders and other photos of murders that would make today’s faint hearts faint away.
Always at the grocery check out isle placed about the level kids could get an eye full of REAL LIFE elsewhere.
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