John Oliver has condemned the “utterly devastating” US Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade.
The Republican-controlled Supreme Court ruled last week in favour of a Mississippi law that outlaws abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy while also overturning key precedents established by the 1973 decision in Roe v Wade, as well as an affirming decision in 1992’s Planned Parenthood v Casey.
Speaking on his topical HBO series Last Week Tonight, Oliver reflected on the much-criticised decision.
“What the Supreme Court has just done is utterly devastating,” he added: “The message that the Supreme Court sends is pretty clear: We don’t care if pregnancy kills you, we don’t care if you don’t want to be pregnant, we don’t care about you at all.”