John Oliver on end of Roe v Wade: ‘We’re in uncharted territory’

John Oliver said the supreme court’s message was: ‘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.’ Photograph: YouTube

John Oliver got straight to the point on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight: the 6-3 supreme court decision to overturn Roe v Wade was “absolutely horrifying”.

“It is hard to stomach some of the gleeful responses right now,” he said, pointing to the Texas attorney general’s decision to declare 24 June an annual holiday. “You don’t get a holiday to celebrate the loss of rights for millions of people when you already have one, and it’s called Columbus Day,” Oliver seethed.