'SNL' envisions abortion debate hundreds of years ago

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : As the three tossed around abortion, pro and con, one of the serfs said, "We can decide it on a fiefdom by fiefdom basis."
39% : In the leaked Supreme Court majority draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito writes that "an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law.""Saturday Night Live" put that argument in a time machine and started the cold open with a discussion among three men from centuries' past, played by host Benedict Cumberbatch and cast members Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson."Don't you think we ought to make a law against it?" said the one played by Cumberbatch.
39% : One of the men said exceptions for rape or incest should be included in any law outlawing abortion.
39% : News segment Weekend Update continued to hammer the conservative members of the Supreme Court following the Monday night leak reported by Politico that suggested the high court could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
33% : Justice Amy Coney Barrett (McKinnon) joined the segment and said outlawing abortion would not change the lives of those with unwanted pregnancies.

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