Bill Maher stuns his crowd by admitting abortion is effectively 'murder' — then offers merciless reason to allow it

Comedian Bill Maher recently stunned the audience of his HBO show "Real Time" by admitting that abortion is murder. In an apparent effort to win back the crowd and signal his commitment to radical progressive doctrine, Maher subsequently offered a profoundly antihuman reason for why this particular variety of murder should be permitted.

Maher spoke Friday with British columnist Gillian Tett and journalist Piers Morgan about the medical slaughter of the unborn. Morgan emphasized that "America is not such an outlier" in terms of its majority resistance to the legalization of unchecked abortion.

"There are many countries in Europe where it is completely illegal to have an abortion: Poland, Malta, you know, places like Andorra," said Morgan. "And if you look at Germany and France and countries like that, it can be 10, 12 weeks is the term limit that you're allowed to have an abortion illegally. So America is not such an outlier."

"I think a lot of Americans on the left do think that this is somehow a really unique American problem or an issue that only pertains to them in terms of the legality of abortions. Actually, compared to Europe, it's not massively dissimilar," added the Briton.

Tett weighed in with the suggestion that the "idea [Americans] are fighting an election around this issue seems to be just strange. Back to the 19th century."

"None of you believe it's murder," responded Maher. "You know, that's why I don't understand the 15-week thing or the — Trump's plan [to] leave it to the states. You mean, so killing babies is okay in some states?"

Maher was apparently prickled by Trump's proposed solution.

Last week, former President Donald Trump suggested in a video statement that following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade, "We have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint."

The Republican front-runner further intimated that contra a nationwide law on abortion, the threat of which might adversely impact his success in November, the best way forward would be for individual states to "determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decided must be the law of the land."

"Like, I can respect the absolutist position. I really can," continued Maher. "I scold the left when they say, 'Oh, you know what? They just hate women. People who aren't ... pro-choice.'"

Maher underscored that pro-life activists "don't hate women. [Leftists] just made that up. They think it's murder, and it kind of is."

The comedian's recognition that abortion entails the claiming of an innocent human life brought a hush over the room.

While his audience may not have been accustomed to such a striking admission, Maher's acknowledgement is hardly novel, even among his peers.

In his 2017 Netflix comedy special, Louis C.K. said, "People hate abortion protesters. 'They're so shrill and awful.' But they think babies are being murdered."

C.K. quipped, "I don't think it's killing a baby, though. I mean, it's a little like killing a baby. It's 100% killing a baby. It's totally killing a whole baby."

After effectively admitting what abortion entails, C.K. elicited uproarious applause with the additions, "But I think women should be allowed to kill babies," and abortion "is the last line of defense against s***ty people in the species."

Maher, like C.K., similarly appealed to eugenicist rhetoric in his brief defense of abortion, insinuating that it amounts to a check on population growth.

Noting that abortion "kind of is" murder, Maher said, "I'm just okay with that. I am. I mean there's 8 billion people in the world. I'm sorry, we won't miss you. That's my position on that. What? ... Is that not your position if you're pro-choice?"

While Piers Morgan feigned surprise over Maher's remark, the self-described Catholic indicated to the HBO host that he held the same position.

While Maher appeared to cite the estimated global population as justification for abortion, global fertility figures would suggest more, not fewer humans, are desperately needed.

Blaze News recently reported on a new peer-reviewed study published in the Lancet that revealed fertility rates have declined in all countries and territories since 1950 and that "human civilization is rapidly converging on a sustained low-fertility reality."

For a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without a massive influx of foreign nationals, it requires a fertility rate of 2.1. By the end of this century, the global fertility rate is expected to drop to 1.59, according to the study.

China aborted nearly a half-billion children since 1980 under its one-child policy and is now suffering a demographic crisis. Like China, now desperately trying to boost its birth rate, the U.S. and the rest of the world may soon come to miss those persons whose killings Maher and others are keen to dismiss.

Pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, said of Maher's comments, "This is THE question around abortion — do all humans have equal rights & value or don't they? If you are pro-choice, you should be man enough to admit abortion is murder. At least @billmaher is a honest pro-abortionist and isn't willing to deny science to justify his belief."

Legal scholar Robert P. George, the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, stated, "Extraordinary candor. Shocking and indeed chilling, to be sure, that Bill Maher acknowledges that abortion is (or 'kind of is') murder and endorses it anyway. But he's no science denier. He's willing to look the brutal reality of what abortion is right in the face ... and own it."

Minnesota state Rep. Walter Hudson (R) similarly expressed an appreciation for Maher's willingness to admit to a central fact in the abortion debate, writing, "It may be morally abhorrent. But it's at least morally consistent, and enables us to have a real conversation. No more evading what we're actually talking about. Let's now talk about 73 million legalized murders worldwide each year."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted, "'You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.'"

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