On the latest episode of “The Problem with Jon Stewart” podcast, the host slammed the Supreme Court, which last month overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision protecting abortion rights.
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Last Week Tonight yesterday (June 26), Oliver called the decision “absolutely horrifying”, adding: “It is hard to stomach some of the gleeful responses right now. You don’t get a holiday to celebrate the loss of rights for millions of people when you already have one, and it’s called Columbus Day.”The presenter noted: “Even when planned, pregnancy is, best cast scenario, a major medical event that rips open your butt, rips out your organs and then puts them in wrong.”He added: “The idea that you can simply seek another abortion in another state is insulting on its face even before you consider that some lawmakers are already openly looking for ways to punish out-of-state abortions.”Oliver also suggested that the US was now in “uncharted territory” rather than the days before Roe v.
Wade, notably given that any loss of pregnancy could be investigated as a criminal act in states where abortion is banned, with access to electronic data not available before 1973.“What the Supreme Court has just done is utterly devastating,” he said. “The message that the Supreme Court sends is pretty clear: We don’t care if pregnancy kills you, we don’t care if you don’t want to be pregnant, we don’t care about you at all.”He also criticised the response of pro-choice politicians, joking: “When they go low, we ask for $15.”Oliver previously hit out at the court following the leak last month, saying at the time: “We may now also need to shore up other rights supposedly guaranteed by Supreme Court rulings, from voting rights to gay marriage, because the fact is, under the current Supreme Court, your basic rights today could become crimes tomorrow.”Since the news emerged, a number of musicians have hit out at the decision, including Taylor
.On the latest episode of “The Problem with Jon Stewart” podcast, the host slammed the Supreme Court, which last month overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision protecting abortion rights.
Trevor Noah weighed in on the Supreme Court’s latest decision to limit the Environmental Protection Agency during Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” pondering what might be the thing to bring this “radical” Supreme Court to a halt.“This is one of the most radical Supreme Courts in American history,” the late night host claimed. “They’re also imposing their power on a country that, for the most part, isn’t on board with any of it.”Noah pointed out that there have been longstanding proposals to reform the Supreme Court, including expanding the number of justices and imposing term limits.
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Gloria Allred It is perfectly natural for me to write this. After all, I am one of many who is affected by the decision of four men and one woman in black robes.Before I share my view with you, however, I would like to tell you a little bit about my life.I first came into existence in the body of an American female. I didn’t ask to be born female.
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Hillary Clinton said she is not surprised by the Supreme Court’s recent decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and removed federal protections for abortion, and she warned there is likely even more fallout to come.“I was not surprised, because I think that was the goal of packing the Court with justices who were on the record for many years of being against women’s Constitutional rights to make decisions about our own bodies,” Clinton said on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday, speaking with Gayle King. “I was deeply sorry that it actually happened.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling, which took away the nationwide right to an abortion, and a weekend full of outrage and protests, late-night television hosts responded Monday.
James Corden blasted the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle federal protections for abortion rights in a new video posted online on Monday.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe BET Awards are officially a celebration of “Black excellence,” and Sunday night’s show featured blockbuster performances from Lizzo, Mariah Carey, Latto, Jack Harlow (who was joined by Brandy and Lil Wayne) and an elaborate tribute to Lifetime Achievement honoree Sean “Diddy” Combs that included an unannounced in-person speech from Kanye West.But for the second time in three years, the show coincided with galvanizing events in the United States: In 2020, it was George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police and the ensuing the Black Lives Matter protests, and this year it was the Supreme Court’s polarizing overturn of Roe v. Wade and the impending loss of a woman’s right to choose in many states in the country.
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President Joe Biden is addressing the Supreme Court‘s decision.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPresident Biden called the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and end a federal right to an abortion “a sad day for the [Supreme] court and for the country” and said it will cast a “dark shadow” over a large swath of the U.S.In an address from the White House shortly after the bombshell ruling was made public, the president said that the court “expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people,” adding, “that’s never been done to a right so important to so many Americans, but they did it.”The final opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, repudiated a 1973 decision which guaranteed constitutional protections for abortion rights.
above.The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 50-year-old precedent set by the landmark 1973 Roe v.
Rising numbers of abortions took place in Greater Manchester last year, as medical leaders call for protected spaces around clinics to prevent women being harassed by anti-abortion demonstrators. The figures follow the US Supreme Court decision to overturn millions of women's legal right to abortion in the nation.