VIDEO: John Oliver: ‘Abortion Cannot Just Be Theoretically Legal, It Has to Be Literally Accessible’
Using a combination of humor and baby sloths, the "Last Week Tonight" host explains to viewers why discussing abortion laws is so crucial at a time in which state laws have quite simply "gone too f*****g far."Using a combination of humor and baby sloths, the “Last Week Tonight” host explains to viewers why discussing abortion laws is so crucial at a time in which state laws have quite simply “gone too fucking far.”
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