{"id":2220104,"date":"2024-04-13T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-mocks-republicans-for-shifting-super-unpopular-abortion-stance\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:32:41","slug":"bill-maher-mocks-republicans-for-shifting-super-unpopular-abortion-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-mocks-republicans-for-shifting-super-unpopular-abortion-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher ridicules Republicans for changing their highly unpopular stance on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-mocks-republicans-for-shifting-super-unpopular-abortion-stance%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=2220104&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--><p>Talk show host Bill Maher criticized the Republican Party&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-no-guns-for-weed-smokers\/\" title=\"Biden: No Guns for Weed Smokers\">inconsistent stance<\/a> on \u200dabortion, calling out their\u200d failure to \u200dmaintain a consistent position. The discussion on\u200b his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-never-had-a-positive-male-influence-in-my-life-besides-rush-limbaugh-final-episode-of-rush-limbaugh-show-airs\/\" title=\"\u2018I Never Had A Positive Male Influence In My Life Besides Rush Limbaugh\u2019: Final Episode of \u2018Rush Limbaugh Show\u2019 Airs\">show highlighted<\/a> the Arizona Supreme Court&#8217;s strict\u200d ruling on abortion, even in\u2063 cases of rape and incest, with exceptions only for situations where the \u200dmother&#8217;s life is in immediate danger. Maher compared\u2063 the GOP&#8217;s approach to a dog catching a car \u2064after chasing it for years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Talk show host <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-maher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bill Maher<\/a> criticized the ever-shifting <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican<\/a> stance on <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>abortion<\/a> for not remaining in an \u201cabsolutist position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s episode of <em>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em> included a discussion on the Arizona Supreme Court ruling abortion illegal even in the case of rape and incest. The only exception is for mothers whose lives are at an immediate risk. Notably, former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2960970\/trump-arizona-supreme-court-too-far-abortion-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed the ban goes too far<\/a>, but Maher suggested it was at least his party\u2019s goal all along, likening them to \u201cthe dog that caught the car.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 50 years, they talked about getting rid of abortion. They did it and it\u2019s super unpopular, and now they have to basically lie,\u201d Maher said. \u201cI mean, Trump \u2014 some of his statements on this \u2014 it sounds like what he said about healthcare: \u2018Make both sides happy \u2026 15 weeks seems to be a number people can agree.\u2019 Can he lie his way out of this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who decided the ruling that overturned the federal protection for the procedure in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>. Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Kamala-Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> visited Arizona on Friday to also put the blame for Arizona\u2019s ban on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people think it\u2019s murder. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t understand the 15-week thing, or Trump\u2019s plan is, \u2018Let\u2019s leave it to the states.\u2019 You mean, so killing babies is OK in some states?\u201d Maher went on. \u201cI can respect the absolutist position. I really can. I scold the Left when they say, \u2018Oh, you know what, they just hate women, people who aren\u2019t pro-choice.\u2019 They don\u2019t hate women. They just made that up. They think it\u2019s murder, and it kind of is.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Maher implied his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-faces-critics-call-to-step-down-for-the-countrys-sake\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris confronted with demands to resign 'in the national interest\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-of-the-most-cringeworthy-religious-mishaps-from-leading-leftists\/\" title=\"7 Of The Most Cringeworthy Religious Mishaps From Leading Leftists\">abortion-rights<\/a> stance<\/a> when he said he was \u201cOK with that.\u201d Piers Morgan was also on the panel and has previously proclaimed to be abortion-rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, there\u2019s 8 billion people in the world. I\u2019m sorry, we won\u2019t miss you,\u201d Maher said. \u201cThat\u2019s my position on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Arizona House has failed twice to repeal the abortion ban. Currently,\u00a0Republicans\u00a0hold slight majorities in both chambers of the state\u2019s legislature.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, any person convicted under this law could face two to five years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the talk show host lambasted Republicans for their inconsistent stance on abortion, urging them to stay committed to their principles. The discussion touched on the Arizona Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to ban abortion, except when the mother&#8217;s life is at risk, even in cases of rape or incest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2220105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23261615416996-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23261615416996-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220104","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}