Bill Maher's New Rule For Pro-Lifers (VIDEO)

Once again, Bill Maher cuts right to the heart of a big issue with uncanny wit and clarity.

In this exclusive preview, Maher suggests a few other things that women who are carrying unwanted pregnancies should be forced to watch, if they are indeed going to be forced to watch an ultrasound of the fetus they're carrying.

We think it's tough but fair.

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Comments

[wovedoc]

10:35 PM on 05/07/2011

Anyone ever check out the EWTN programs? Those dreamy-eyed players could give one nightmares. Absolute mind control.

[FeralForever]

05:30 PM on 05/03/2011

Great posts on this. However, I believe part of the reason some politicians oppose abortion so strongly is an unspoken anxiety about losing the tax base of the future. What would become of America without it? And generally speaking, the majority of women provide free labor in the care and upbringing of this tax base.

And speaking of guns and Republicans, I have a message for all of them: if owning guns made us safer, we'd be the safest country in the world. In reality, no man, woman or child is safe in these United States...random crime happens daily in every community we call home.

[caroline gray]

12:54 AM on 04/12/2011

Haha...I loved watching Maher's religious documentary. Haven't gotten a chance to check out the HBO one yet :).

[mike dougles]

03:22 PM on 04/11/2011

How about a rule for Pro choicers
Be pro choice on
School
guns
Buying health care
What I eat... Mayor bloomberg leave my salt alone...
What I drink Mayor Menino leave my coke alone.

What I drive, dont force me into a small cars i dont like I like SUV's.

[MOOSHDOG]

03:30 PM on 04/11/2011

This is great. You are so blinded by yourself and your beliefs.....you don't realize the mentality you are applying here and the policies you are inherently supporting are UNSUSTAINABLE. FYI I drive an SUV too but I don't B**CH about it.

[mike dougles]

03:33 PM on 04/11/2011

So your not really all that pro choice are you.
And how am i B**ching about my SUV?

[giving]

10:41 PM on 04/12/2011

cool, mike douglas
i have waved my magic wand
and you can have your wishes;
-any school you want
-guns
-buy health care
-what you eat
-what you drink
-what car you drive
-what you think
-what you see
-what you know
-what you don't know
-what you don't need to know
-what you don't want to know
now enjoy it's America and nobody is
stopping you but yourself.
take care,
and enjoy the fruits
of your labor,
God Bless You
and keep You
and may you
live in peace and happiness
forever and forever
and may you die and go to heaven
before the devil
knows your dead.

[flyers]

10:31 AM on 04/11/2011

Used to be a huge fan of his show on Comedy Central and ABC, but the HBO show is unwatchable. The guy is angry and unfunny these days! Once Bill became a paid sponsor for the Democratic Party his show jumped the shark.

[wespenn56]

06:38 AM on 04/25/2011

Considering this guy has had some of the harshest criticism of Democrats in general and Obama in particular, where exactly are you coming from?

[jockmama]

04:30 PM on 05/13/2011

Bill criticizes everyone who needs criticism. Some of his harshest criticism has been for Obama and the Democrats. He just makes fun of the Republicans, because they're nothing but a joke nowadays. If you want to see someone who used to be even-handed and is now a paid spokesperson for one political party, see Mr. Dennis Miller. He USED to go after anyone who needed it, the way Maher does. But somewhere around 2006 his nose suddenly became deep brown from spending all its time up George Bush's *ss.

[Badger33]

03:05 AM on 04/11/2011

I like it but I like his commentary from last Friday on the unacknowledged class war in this country. It was funny and courageous. I'm shocked that HP wouldn't have a clip of it.

[leorangerie]

02:40 AM on 04/11/2011

I know HP folks will hate this...but: Bill does not have kids...if he did, he probably wouldn't make this joke. I am pro women's choice, but this particular joke...comparing abortion to bratty kids is the kind of joke you make when you have never given birth. It's just not that funny, except to those who haven't lived all that much in the real world. I am a big Bill Maher fan...he's often hysterical. But here he comes off as wimpy-intellectual 'oh the masses are so amusing' type guy. Just an opinion.

[CharlesW299]

04:44 PM on 04/11/2011

I don’t think he hates kids.
I think he is pointing out that the ultrasound rule is kinda one sided.
That rule was also put forward by men, who like Bill, have not given birth either…
Personally, I think it rather weird that so many men are involved in deciding what happens relative to a woman's body.
It's not like women in Congress are telling men when, where and how to get vasectomies.

[bipolarbears60]

01:59 PM on 04/13/2011

Maybe that's the problem. I'm really starting to believe its time to throw these men off their game and start demanding vasectomies for any man behind on child support. Why? Because its time these miscreants in Congress spent as much time fighting to retain the rights of men over their own bodies as they spend trying to deny the rights of women over their own bodies.

[mombabytiger]

09:32 AM on 05/12/2011

He actually does hate kids. He's said so many times.

[madrediterra]

04:54 PM on 04/19/2011

I've given birth and thought this was very funny.

[Olethea]

11:34 PM on 04/10/2011

New rule: Republicans can't credibly discuss abortion, social security, medicare, or immigration until they present the jobs bill they campaigned on.

[shunda]

01:50 PM on 04/12/2011

Fanned

[lovemyluggage]

09:49 PM on 04/19/2011

ditto

[wespenn56]

06:39 AM on 04/25/2011

Fanned.

[Endotoxin]

10:09 PM on 04/10/2011

Bill Maher is my hero.

[docwimz]

07:16 PM on 04/10/2011

Since prolifers want less aboortions I think it is only fair that they take in the 500,0000 children forced onto the streets due to child abuse. And while we are at it how about all those children ( close to 2 million) they said they would adopt that are currently languishing in special homes and the foster care system because they are "unadoptable", due to physical and emotional disabilites.I say we ship them to WAshington DC and have the "pro-life", politicians take care of them; especially now that they have cut social welfare funding.

[Sukami]

05:36 AM on 04/12/2011

I couldn't agree more. Fanned and faved.

I call that the pro-consumer agenda. They claim to want to protect life, but display no willingness to cultivate it once it leaves the womb. That means they must want more human beings around for some other reason. George Carlin once said that "Republica­ns want live babies....­...so they can grow up to become dead soldiers", but I'd like to amend that and add that Republicans want live babies so they can grow up to be avid consumers, blind voters, and dead soldiers.

[CaraTaylor]

08:40 PM on 05/12/2011

Actually, one of the Republicans just recently said that we should be having MORE children to bolster the social security system. Insanity.

[shunda]

01:50 PM on 04/12/2011

Fanned

[a okafor007]

07:11 PM on 04/10/2011

I say if they try to make abortion illegal, Dems should propose an amendment mandating that pro-lifers adopt two children EACH from Adoptive Services in their state. Watch how the weasels would squeal XD

[jackflash23]

06:05 PM on 04/10/2011

If only Bill Maher were on Comedy Central.

[Veggee]

05:24 PM on 04/10/2011

If you eat the flesh of God's creatures, or advocate for the death penalty, you cannot call yourself "prolife."

[caroline gray]

12:50 AM on 04/12/2011

Seriously. FAVED AND FANNED. One of my favourite posts.

[shunda]

01:51 PM on 04/12/2011

Fanned

[Olethea]

03:01 PM on 04/10/2011

Pro-lifers can only be legitimately be called so when they champion the cause of sex education and support safe and affordable birth control to facilitate family planning. Until then, they have no moral ground to stand on against abortion.

It's disgusting that they want to wait to intervene until after the woman is pregnant. Further proof that christian fundamentalists want as many babies born as possible. Quiverfull anyone?

[DevonTexas]

08:41 PM on 04/10/2011

THey aren't pro-life as much as they are anti-choice and anti-women

[mombabytiger]

09:39 AM on 05/12/2011

The fundies truly believe that abortion is killing an innocent life. Which is fine - to each his own. But that belief has made them susceptible to political machinations by unscrupulous Republicans (is there any other kind really?).

Jesus said to feed the hungry and thirsty, clothe people, welcome them into your home, take care of the sick and visit those who are imprisoned. Those are Democratic values and should be Christan values. But the abortion issue (and it's sister issue Gay marriage) have led them away from things that actually make a difference. That's why Republicans always bring them up.

[santiago sherwood]

11:54 AM on 04/10/2011

we put women through all this but the father always gets off scot free.

[LynnyC]

02:39 PM on 04/10/2011

not always. but yeah, pro lifers want to make woman's lives miserable. Like how our lives used to be. And it doesn't matter how many times we say we do not like abortions,-- we want them to be extremely rare, --we are not pro abortion. Unless I was raped or my life was at risk, I would never imagine getting an abortion. But it's not a choice one makes for another person.

So I watched "Lake Of Fire", which is a great unbiased doc on abortion, and then I watched "Unborn in America" which is almost entirely from interviews with pro lifers, but is fairly disturbing as it shows their tactics and schools. I didn't know they had school with class dedicated to confronting people about abortions, but they do. They use a video of this women being ganged up on as a teaching device. Very sickening.

[CharlesW299]

04:51 PM on 04/11/2011

Uh yeah.
That's because it's the guys making those rules.

They don’t have to give birth, change, clean or feed the baby - they are too busy making the rules for women to live by.