Sunday 8 May 2022 07:05 AM Saturday Night Live takes aim at Supreme Court's plans to overturn Roe vs Wade trends now
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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SNL also poked fun at the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision indicating the justices are poised to overturn the constitutional right to abortion in the show's cold open
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
Benedict Cumberbatch plays a character obsessed with the idea of outlawing abortion
Cast members James Austin Johnson and Aristotle Athari question Cumberbatch
'Like the law we have against pointy shoes?' retorted cast member James Austin Johnson.
'Or the law that if you hunt dear in the forest they remove your genitals?' added fellow cast member Aristotle Athari
The sketch goes on mocking the idea of such old laws being seen as relevant in the 21st century.
'Exactly!' Cumberbatch's character responds. 'Something that's fair and reasonable like those laws. We should make a law that stands the test of time, so that hundreds and hundreds of years from now, they'll look back and say 'no need to update this one at all! They nailed it back in 1235!'
He also warns against anyone leaking their conversation to the town crier, in reference to the uproar over Alito's decision being
