"Saturday Night Live" kicked off its Mother's Day episode by tackling the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion leak on Roe v. Wade.

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Little surprise that "Saturday Night Live" kicked off its Mother's Day episode by tackling one of the biggest news stories of the year: the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting justices are poised to strike down 1973's Roe v. Wade, which guarantees the right to abortion.

The sketch opened with a voiceover referring to Justice Samuel Alito citing a medieval jurist in his argument to overturn the decision. Cut to Benedict Cumberbatch, in his second time as host, as a 13th-century townsman with a bowl haircut, holding forth with two other simpletons on abortion to provide "moral clarity."

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