As conservative Georgia lawmakers pushed one of the strictest abortion regulations in the country—one that effectively amounts to an outright ban—some in Hollywood and the entertainment industry more broadly were fighting back—speaking out with personal stories and, in some cases, calling for a boycott on filming in the state if the law were to move forward. And while the response to this legislation has been relatively muted, opposition within the entertainment industry is also growing every day. On Sunday night, John Oliver joined the fray, tearing apart the bill and the politicians backing it.

The new law prohibits abortions upon detection of a fetal heartbeat—which can occur after as few as six weeks, before some women even know they’re pregnant. Exceptions exist only for cases involving fatal deformities, threats to the mother’s life, or cases of rape or incest in which a police report was filed. The law also states that a fetus can be claimed as a tax deduction, as children are. “First,” Oliver opined Sunday, “‘tax breaks begin at conception’ may be literally the most Republican law ever created. And second, it’s pretty egregious to only make an exception for rape or incest ‘where a police report was filed.’ I guess that’s to separate the incest that they’re talking about from your run-of-the-mill cousin-fucking, or as it’s more commonly known, ‘a Giuliani marriage.’”

Lawmakers’ arguments in favor of the legislation gave Oliver plenty of material to work with. He played a clip of Rep. Darlene Taylor making her case by quoting a fictional baby named “Fetus”: “Let’s walk through this,” Oliver said. “First, she explicitly says she’s speaking not on behalf of a fetus, but on behalf of a baby whose name is Fetus. Then she’s somehow quoting this made-up baby, Fetus, despite the fact that babies can’t speak or write, so she has no source material from which to quote. I actually think my feelings on this might be best summed up by baby Fetus’s seminal 1973 autobiography, All the Things I Didn’t Say Because I’m Not Real.”

Oliver quoted a fake passage from the fictional baby’s nonexistent book for effect—and wouldn’t you know, the not-real baby agreed with him! “A fetus is not a baby,” Oliver quoted, “and in fact, at six weeks, a fetus isn’t even a fetus; it’s an embryo the size of a pomegranate seed. Also, on an unrelated note, I bet the sex that Jim and Pam have is fine, but I bet the sex that Pam and Roy used to have was better. This is the hill I would die on were I not too fictional to die.” Who knew teens weren’t the youngest age bracket apparently obsessed with The Office?

On a more serious note, Oliver described Georgia’s law, which will not take effect until 2020, as “blatantly unconstitutional”—but noted that similarly punitive legislation has cropped up in multiple states, including Alabama and Ohio. “If you’re sensing a pattern here, that might be because just this year, states have introduced more than 250 bills restricting abortion access,” Oliver said. “It’s pretty clear now with a conservative Supreme Court, lawmakers are taking every shot they can to get a case that might end up overturning Roe v. Wade. And they’re gonna keep trying. Which is why it is incumbent on all of us to pay close attention to this issue.”

In closing out his segment, Oliver opted to quote that “unexpectedly literate baby” one more time: “Listen, I’m not a constitutional scholar. I’m not anything. But if I were, I’d tell you that laws like these deny women agency over their own bodies, and your actions put their health and lives at risk. But hey, why not ask the women affected what they think? Because they’re actual people, unlike me, a fucking fictional baby named Fetus.”

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