Nothing causes a late night talk show host to freak out around election time quite like the fate of abortion and HBO’s John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight was no different as he spent most of the program hyping abortion and at one point going gaga over The Satanic Temple naming a facility after Justice Samuel Alito, his mother, and suggesting he should have been aborted.
Oliver teed up a clip from EWTN in February, “Some have taken some small steps in the last year that are, if nothing else, immensely satisfying -- like this one, that was covered by a Catholic news network.”
The clip showed anchor Tracy Sabol reporting that, “An international group named after Satan will soon open its first abortion business in the United States. The Satanic Temple, which claims to not believe in a literal Satan, will provide telehealth screenings and prescribe abortion pills for patients in New Mexico. The name of the soon to be facility? The Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic.”
Most people don’t willingly associate themselves with the Devil, literal or otherwise, but the religion of abortion needs disciples and Oliver is happy to spread the word, “Incredible. Very well-played. Now, is that going to fix everything? No, of course it isn’t. But when it comes to responding to such wide-spreading devastation, you could do a lot worse than the single best ‘Your mom’ joke of all time. Especially when you add in that one of that group's co-founders even said, in 1950, Samuel Alito's mother did not have options, and look what happened.’”
Oliver and the Satanic Temple wish Alito was dead. Why aren’t you laughing?
Moving on, Oliver urged viewers to vote from pro-abortion candidates and ballot measures in places such as Virginia, “If you live in Virginia, Democrats lost the House and governor's seat in 2021, but still control the State Senate and only because of that were they able, earlier this year they were able to stop three bills that would have restricted abortion.”
One of those bills was a 15-week ban with rape and incest exceptions, hardly a radical proposal.
On the Kentucky gubernatorial race, a profane Oliver warned of the sex police:
Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the incumbent governor, Andy Beshear is being challenged by conservative AG Daniel Cameron who you might remember from the disastrous handling of the Breonna Taylor case. He's also said in a questionnaire circulated by an anti-abortion group that he'd support codifying personhood from the moment of fertilization, and criminalizing providers who perform abortions. And while all that's obviously terrible -- how exactly does he intend to enforce life beginning at fertilization? Does everyone have to fuck in front of him? No thank you very much, Daniel!
No, John, it just means abortion won’t be legal.
Here is a transcript for the November 5 show:
HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
11/5/2023
11:19 PM ET
JOHN OLIVER: Some have taken some small steps in the last year that are, if nothing else, immensely satisfying -- like this one, that was covered by a Catholic news network.
TRACY SABOL [FEBRUARY 3]: An international group named after Satan will soon open its first abortion business in the United States. The Satanic Temple, which claims to not believe in a literal Satan, will provide telehealth screenings and prescribe abortion pills for patients in New Mexico. The name of the soon to be facility? The Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic.
OLIVER: Incredible. Very well-played. Now, is that going to fix everything? No, of course it isn’t. But when it comes to responding to such wide-spreading devastation, you could do a lot worse than the single best "Your mom" joke of all time.
Especially when you add in that one of that group's co-founders even said, “in 1950, Samuel Alito's mother did not have options, and look what happened.”
But the most important thing for you to do right now is -- and I apologize in advance for even saying this -- to vote. Abortion rights are -- for all the attacks on them -- still widely popular. Six states have had abortion-related measures on the ballot since Dobbs, and in all six, voters preserved access to abortion. And that was even true in red states like Montana, Kansas, and Kentucky.
This is genuinely a case where voting can have immediate, and lasting, effect and to that end, as I mentioned, there are some important elections on Tuesday where it's going to be crucial to continue that streak. If you live in Virginia, Democrats lost the House and governor's seat in 2021, but still control the State Senate and only because of that were they able, earlier this year they were able to stop three bills that would have restricted abortion.
But if they lose the Senate next week, that will clearly change. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the incumbent governor, Andy Beshear is being challenged by conservative AG Daniel Cameron who you might remember from the disastrous handling of the Breonna Taylor case. He's also said in a questionnaire circulated by an anti-abortion group that he'd support codifying personhood from the moment of fertilization, and criminalizing providers who perform abortions.
And while all that's obviously terrible -- how exactly does he intend to enforce life beginning at fertilization? Does everyone have to fuck in front of him? No thank you very much, Daniel!
