Bill Maher 'respects' absolutist position, says abortion is murder and he 'agrees with it'
Comedian rejects Trump's position: “Is killing babies OK in some states?”
HBO host Bill Maher prompted silence from his audience on Friday's episode of “Real Time” when he acknowledged that abortion is murder by suggesting he's “OK” with it because there are enough people on the planet.
Speaking during a panel discussion with British journalists Piers Morgan and Gillian Tett, Maher conceded the consistency of the “absolutist” argument that abortion is always wrong, and that attempts to draw the line at various stages of pregnancy make little sense.
“That's why I don't understand the 15-week thing, nor Trump's plan [to] leave it to the states,'” he said. “You mean, so killing babies is okay in some states? I can respect the absolutist position. I really can.”
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NEW: Room falls silent as Bill Maher admits he thinks abortion is murder, but says he's okay with it because “there are 8 billion people in the world.”
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“I blame the Left when they say, 'Oh, you know what? They just hate women, pro-life people,'” he continued. “They don't hate women. They just made it up. They think it's murder, and it is. I'm just okay with that. I am. I mean, there's 8 billion people in the world. I am. sorry, we won't miss you. That's my position on that.”
“What?” Maher said after his statement was met with awkward silence from Morgan, Tett, and the audience.
“That's pretty harsh, Bill,” Morgan said, adding that perhaps Maher adheres to that position “because you don't like children.” Maher pushed back by noting how if Morgan is pro-choice, then he technically agrees with him.
Morgan went on to explain that while he is personally pro-choice, he respects those who hold a different opinion and that he believes Trump changed his views on public abortion in a cynical attempt to woo evangelical voters in 2016.
“What I think I don't have as much respect for with Trump is that he's clearly done a complete U-turn, and I think for political reasons,” he said. “He did it in 2016 to bring the evangelicals together. He said, 'I will fill the court.' I will do that and reverse. Roe v. Wade.' So they all came with him.”
“And I think now he feels he has them, and now you see him and, again, I say I don't support what he's doing,” he continued. “But I understand the political reasons he's doing it, and I think it could be quite effective, actually, to neutralize what's becoming a massive banana skin for the party. And I think that's what he recognizes, and he moving forward with it. . . I think it might work for him.”
Trump has provoked mixed reactions in recent days for suggesting last week that abortion laws should be left up to the states.
In video posted last Monday to Truth Social, Trump promised that “under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, prosperous and healthy American families,” adding, “We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies,” not harder .”
After noting his support for in vitro fertilization and blasting Democrats for allegedly supporting abortion “up to and including the ninth month,” he said whatever individual states decide on the matter “must be the law of the land ” in that state.
Trump's video came a day before the Arizona Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision upholding a strict state law established in 1864 that virtually outlaws the procedure. The law was later reacted in 1977 and reaffirmed in 2022.
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