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8th May 2022
11:19am BST

Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson playing characters voting to "outlaw abortion forever" (Credit: Saturday Night Live)[/caption]
Introducing the show on Saturday night, Cumberbatch said: “While I was cleaning the hole on the side of the castle where we poop and then it falls through the sky into a hole of human faeces, I started to think about abortion.
"Don’t you think we ought to make a law against that?”
The actor made sure to blatantly reference Alito’s decision to base his opinion on historical texts, as Cumberbatch's character praised his own “moral clarity”.
"We should make a law that will stand the test of time so that hundreds and hundreds of years from now, they'll look back and say, 'No need to update this one at all, they nailed it back in 1235," he added.
SNL actress Cecily Strong, who played a servant, soon appeared to question the decision. Her character asked: “Shouldn’t women have the right to choose, since having a baby means a 50 percent chance of dying?”
Fellow actress Kate McKinnon told Strong’s character: “Worry not, dear girl, these barbaric laws will someday be overturned by something called ‘progress’.
"Then, about 50 years after the progres, they’ll be like, ‘Maybe we should undo the progress.’"
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Cecily Strong's character gave the female perspective (Credit: Saturday Night Live)[/caption]
Then, referencing the Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard, McKinnon said: “I don’t know why, my visions from that time are very confusing. It seems like all the power comes from a place called Florida.
"And if you think our customs are weird, you should watch the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.”
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