Real Time host Bill Maher mocked woke advocates for transgender issues on Friday night, saying the possible overturn of Roe V. Wade was a more important issue that puts their complaints into perspective.
In his opening monologue, Maher discussed the Supreme Court leak that revealed five justices are prepared to alter the landmark abortion case.
But the talk show host couldn’t resist taking a jab at transgender people and their supporters obsession with policing pronouns.
‘Louisiana wants to pass a law that says flat out if you get an abortion, you get charged with murder. Wow,’ Maher said, referencing the state’s controversial abortion bill.
‘Suddenly getting the right pronoun doesn’t seem so big, does it?’
Along with the Louisiana bill, Maher criticized the wave of states looking to set more restrictive abortion laws as they expected Roe V. Wade to be overturned.
‘Oklahoma already has one on the books. Six weeks, can’t get an [abortion] after six weeks,’ he said. ‘Most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks.
‘They don’t even know if they like the guy. Six weeks. That’s a quick look.
Despite what he said, Maher slammed pro-choice protestors later in the show, saying their claim that ending Roe V. Wade would send U.S. abortion rights back 50 years is ‘factually inaccurate.’
Maher said the ruling is not ‘settled law’ and that it would not have the drastic impact pro-choice defenders believe it would.
‘Most abortions now, even when you go to a clinic, are done with the pill,’ Maher said. The pill. And pills are easy to get in America.’
‘So, you know, for the people who say we’re going back to 1973, we’re not. That’s just factually inaccurate.’
He added said that abortion rights in most European countries are far more restrictive than in the U.S.
