Saturday Night Live takes aim at Supreme Court’s plans to overturn Roe vs Wade

SNL took aim at the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion in the show’s cold open.

Saturday’s host Benedict Cumberbatch and his fellow SNL cast members star in a sketch set in 13th century England, riffing on Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision that cites a treatise from that era. 

‘We go now to that profound moral clarity almost a thousand years ago, which laid such a clear foundation for what our laws should be in 2022,’ said a narrator setting up the sketch. 

Three men, including one played by Cumberbatch, become obsessed with outlawing abortion.

‘Don’t you think we ought to make a law against it?’ asked Cumberbatch.

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