{"id":1467265,"date":"2022-05-07T07:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467265"},"modified":"2022-05-07T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:59:49","slug":"bill-maher-surprisingly-pushes-back-at-hysteria-following-leaked-roe-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-surprisingly-pushes-back-at-hysteria-following-leaked-roe-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Surprisingly Pushes Back at Hysteria Following Leaked Roe Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-surprisingly-pushes-back-at-hysteria-following-leaked-roe-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467265&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Real Time&#8221; host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-twitter-elon-musk-babylon-bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Maher<\/a> kicked off his panel discussion about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> debate Friday by sharing the surprising things he learned following the leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> majority opinion draft on Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;I learned things this week\u2026 that are pretty basic things that I did not know about abortion. Like in Europe, the modern countries of Europe are way more restrictive than we are or what they&#8217;re even proposing!&#8221; Maher exclaimed. &#8220;If you are pro-choice, you would like it a lot less in Germany, and Italy, and France, and Spain, and Switzerland. Did you know that? I didn&#8217;t know that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-twitter-elon-musk-babylon-bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BILL MAHER RIPS TWITTER FOR FLAGGING BABYLON BEE AMID ELON MUSK TAKEOVER: \u2018YOU \u00a0DO NEED A NEW SHERIFF\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned most people who are pro-life are women. I did not know that. Most abortions are from\u2026 mothers, people who have a kid\u2026 And I thought this was interesting, most abortions now \u2014 even when you go to a clinic are done with the pill. The pill. And pills are easy to get in America,&#8221; Maher continued.\u00a0&#8220;So, you know, for the people who say we&#8217;re going back to 1973, we&#8217;re not. That&#8217;s just factually inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/AP22123112248337.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, Monday night, May 2, 2022 in Washington following reports of a leaked draft opinion by the court overturning Roe v. Wade.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, Monday night, May 2, 2022 in Washington following reports of a leaked draft opinion by the court overturning Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Anna Johnson)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala responded by telling Maher, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going back to 1973, we&#8217;re going back to 1931,&#8221; citing Texas law that imprisons doctors who perform abortions under the state&#8217;s trigger ban if Roe v. Wade is reversed and how the trigger laws in both the Lone Star state and Michigan have no abortion exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Former NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya disagreed with Begala and pivoted the conversation to how there should be limits to abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s got to be a point at which we say this is a human being capable of living outside the womb where maybe we don&#8217;t \u2014 we don&#8217;t do that,&#8221; Tafoya said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s what you see a lot of in Europe and a lot of people are kind of settling around, \u2018Okay, 15 weeks maybe.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-biden-immigration-midterms-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BILL MAHER: WHEN IS BIDEN GOING TO UNDERSTAND THAT IMMIGRATION IS A BIG DEAL?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Begala later argued that the &#8220;rationale&#8221; in the draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito would apply to things like interracial and same-sex marriage, which Tafoya pushed back on, pointing to how Alito states the ruling would specifically apply to abortion because it involves a &#8220;third party,&#8221; being the unborn child.<\/p>\n<p>Maher then railed against those who say Roe v. Wade is &#8220;settled law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This whole bulls&#8212; argument about, \u2018Well, it\u2019s settled law.\u2019 So was segregation. Plessy vs. Ferguson was \u2018settled law\u2019 in 1896 and thank God somebody said let&#8217;s unsettle it. So that&#8217;s a bulls&#8212; argument. It&#8217;s what you think,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;If you like babies, then you&#8217;re pro-life and if you&#8217;re pro-women, you&#8217;re pro-choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/640\/320\/Bill-Maher-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"HBO\u2019s \" Real Time \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      HBO\u2019s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; host Bill Maher recently addressed the &#8220;war on jokes.&#8221;<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(HBO)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The HBO star turned to Begala about his concerns about overturning Roe v. Wade having a &#8220;domino&#8221; effect on other rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t stir up fear now. Be honest,&#8221; Tafoya told Begala before he responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Begala continued to argue since the abortion law is classified under the same privacy right as things like marriage and contraception, they too can be in jeopardy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Clarence Thomas is \u2014 it&#8217;s an interracial marriage,&#8221; Maher pushed back. &#8220;I guess what I&#8217;m saying is I really feel like abortion is unique. It is because either \u2014 you just have this view that it&#8217;s murder. I could put the argument on a hat when people talk about a woman&#8217;s right. \u2018Murder isn\u2019t a right.&#8217; If you think it&#8217;s murder \u2014 I don&#8217;t, again, crazy me\u2026 &#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! &#8220;Real Time&#8221; host Bill Maher kicked off his panel discussion about the abortion debate Friday by sharing the surprising things he learned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}