Saturday Night Live alumna Maya Rudolph returned to host the show over Mother’s Day weekend, making note of her own status as a mom and celebrating fellow mothers. She was dubbed “Mother of the House of Rockefeller” and recounted some of the characters she played throughout the years. I stopped watching SNL regularly when Adam Sandler’s “Opera Man” retired, so some of the performance was lost on me. But this wasn’t: Even in a comedic context, mainstream, popular culture was celebrating motherhood.
That’s no small thing. We’re about to hit two years since Roe v. Wade was ended by the Supreme Court, and there is so much anger, confusion, and sadness. There is a sense that fertility is a preexisting medical condition and pregnancy is to be avoided until the perfect plan is in place.
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