{"id":310745,"date":"2024-04-20T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=310745"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:11:28","slug":"saturday-night-live-1864-arizona-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/saturday-night-live-1864-arizona-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks 1864 Arizona pro-life law… but guess what else passed in 1864?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Saturday Night Live” joked<\/a> about abortion last weekend during its “Weekend Update” segment, focusing the ‘joke’ specifically on Arizona’s recent state Supreme Court decision<\/a> to allow a longstanding pro-life law put in place in 1864 to go into effect.<\/p>\n

“Reinstating laws from 1864 isn\u2019t the worst thing for me, because I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n

“But it’s probably not great to adopt healthcare rules from a time where the only two things doctors prescribed were prayer and cocaine \u2014 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.”<\/p>\n

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