'AOC says gender is fluid - but so are Latino voters': Bill Maher says Democrats are trying to lose the abortion debate by using woke phrases like 'birthing people' and are driving voters to Republicans

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Bill Maher blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive ilk for losing the debate on abortion thanks to the use of woke slang including 'pregnant people.' 

Speaking on his show Real Time with Bill Maher Friday - hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade - Maher told viewers that abortion is a 'difficult issue for the Democrats to lose on, but they're trying.

He also warned that the party could no longer blithely count on traditional support from minority groups, warning that Latin-Americans' voting-preference was just as 'fluid' as AOC claims gender is.  

'For decades, liberals have said, 'If only men could get pregnant, this wouldn't even be an issue,' and 'abortion rights are Women's Rights.' Well, that's wrong now.

'When the wokey end of the progressive spectrum talks about abortion now, they shy away from the word 'women' and prefer terms like 'birthing people' or 'people who menstruate' because somewhere there's a trans man who's pregnant and I say good for him - and I'll be looking for his story somewhere in a future issue of Ripley's Believe it or Not.'

'Oh Democrats, let's take the first f****** word a human animal understands: 'mama' - and replace it with something bet understood by four Trotskyites at Berkeley,' he continued, referring to hard-left students at the august California college. 

In Friday's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher said Democrats are losing the abortion debate with their woke terms like 'birthing people' and 'people who menstruate'

Maher claimed in the monologue that many different groups are using the Democratic Party as their own personal lawmakers, and as a result the party is having to focus on too many different clients.

He noted that Democrats recently lost a special election in a majority Hispanic neighborhood in Texas  for the first time in over 150 years.

'Their message to you was, 'I'm an American now. I'm here. Be my lawyer, not the lawyer for the migrant showing up in my backyard.'

He then tore into woke Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has defended using the term 'latinx' even though polling shows that it is widely unpopular with Hispanics.

'AOC keeps saying 'Gender is fluid. Language is fluid.' Yes, and Latino voters are fluid.'

He also accused people of using the Democratic Party as their own personal lawyer

Maher also noted that Asian Americans are becoming more Republican, blaming it on Democrat-proposed policies of eliminating advanced education programs 'in the name of achieving equity,' and prolonged school shutdowns during the COVID pandemic.

He also hit back at President Joe Biden's efforts to eliminate billions of dollars in student loan debt.

'The poorer two-thirds of American kids who don't get a college degree are gonna say, 'Why should the people who didn't go to college and make less money subsidize the people who did go and want more.

'You want me to chip in so some liberal arts college can build a bigger rock wall? You're not my lawyer.''

Maher went on to mock a pilot universal basic income program in West Hollywood, that was deemed unconstitutional because all the money was given to members of the LGBTQ community.

'Why?' Maher asked. 'Because they need more money than any other people? Because no one in West Hollywood will hire a gay person.'

Additionally, Maher called out woke Sen. Bernie Sanders who campaigned on the legalization of marijuana - something Maher has publicly said he supports - but vowed to give money back to racial minorities by the drug war.

He claimed that idea is what is holding up support from Republicans.

'As with all these issues, the wavering voter is saying to her lawyer, the Democratic Party, 'Hey, so happy for you that you have so many other clients and that you care so much about their problems, and all the pro bono work you do, but you're supposed to be my lawyer,' he said.

'The Democrats have to be like the lawyers you see on billboards: 'You hurt? We fight!' 'Injured, get the Gorilla,' 'Minsy makes them pay!' and my favorite 'Just because you did it doesn't mean you're guilty.'

'It doesn't? I think it does,' Maher said. 'But that's the thing about a lawyer: Their clients don't are if they shade the truth. They care about winning.

'You know what I want the Democratic Party do do? Win on the Trump issue. Finish what you started with the January 6 hearings, and make sure the guy who absolutely will try to steal the next election can't run in it.

'That's what I want my lawyer to do,' he concluded.

The episode came just hours after the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade decision sparking major protests in Washington DC, which woke Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended

Ocasio-Cortez spoke with the abortion rights activists outside the Supreme Court on Friday

She joined in the massive protests outside the Supreme Court, gesturing with the crowd

Ocasio-Cortez also spoke with abortion rights supporter Julianne D'Eredita, 21, following the ruling overturning abortion rights across the country

Maher's speech came just hours after the the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shredded five decades of constitutional protections.

The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision enshrining a woman's right to an abortion, saying individual states can restrict or ban the procedure themselves. 

In the aftermath, furious pro-choice demonstrators took to the streets in cities like Washington DC, Phoenix, New York City and Los Angeles as they begged the Biden administration to find a way to overrule the decision.

A group was spotted burning the flag of the United States in the capital while others gathered outside Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' home after he called on his fellow jurists to overturn previous rulings that followed similar legal precedent - like the Supreme Court case legalizing gay marriage nationwide.

In Arizona, meanwhile, cops were forced to fire tear gas at protestors after they appeared to breach the State Senate building in Phoenix, with staff evacuated but no one reported to have been injured.

In Iowa, a pickup truck plowed into pro-choice protesters in despite them screaming at it to stop and hammering the hood and window.

One appeared to get caught in front of it and narrowly avoided being run over before the driver sped off during the shocking exchange in Cedar Rapids on Friday night and another had her foot run over and was left howling in pain. A third was flung to the floor as he drove away, suffering bruises and scrapes.

And at least 25 were arrested in New York City after around 17,000 descended on Washington Square Park before marching through the streets to Grand Central Station, Times Square, and Bryant Park.

They also stopped outside News Corp headquarters - home to Fox News and The New York Post - and yelled 'Burn it down! Burn it down! F–k Tucker Carlson!' Vandals also sprayed 'F*** Fox' on the side of the building.

Following the Supreme Court's decision on Friday, thousands of abortion rights protesters descended on the Supreme Court building

It was just one of several protests going on throughout the country on Friday

The protests lasted well into the night on Friday, with protesters holding signs outside the Supreme Court

Protesters, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, chanted and yelled at the Supreme Court, where the conservative justices voted to overturn Roe v Wade

Meanwhile, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Susan Collins slammed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch for their votes in overturning Roe v Wade on Friday.

The senators had voted to confirm the Donald Trump appointed justices despite fears that they would overturn the landmark abortion ruling, with the senators saying at the time that they trusted Kavanaugh and Gorsuch to uphold the law. 

Now Collins, a Republican, and Manchin, a Democrat, are accusing the justices of misleading them as they criticized the court's 5-4 ruling to end women's federal right to an abortion. 

'This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon,' Collins said in a statement. 

Manchin echoed the outrage, saying: 'I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.' 

The fate of Roe V. Wade had long-been on the nation's mind when Trump appointed Gorsuch in 2017 and Kavanaugh a year later.  

Liberals feared that the conservative-leaning justices would act to overturn Roe v. Wade if given a chance, but both men said in their confirmation hearings that the landmark ruling was settled law. 

'Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court,' Gorsuch told senators in 2017. 'It has been reaffirmed. 

'So a good judge will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.' 

Kavanaugh failed to publicly answer if he believed Roe v. Wade was 'correct law,' but doubled down that it was not only settled, but reinforced by the court's 1992 Casey V. Planned Parenthood, which upheld the federal right to an abortion. 

'So Casey now becomes a precedent on precedent,' Kavanaugh said in 2018. 'It is not as if it is just a run-of-the-mill case that was decided and never been reconsidered, but Casey specifically reconsidered it, applied the stare decisis factors, and decided to reaffirm it.' 

Collins said Kavanaugh echoed his statements to her in a one-on-one interview in 2018.  

'We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,' Collins said back then. 'He said he agreed with what Justice [John] Roberts said in his nomination hearing, in which he said that it was settled law.     

'We had a very good, thorough discussion about that issue and many others.' 

U.S. Senators Susan Collins (left) and Joe Manchin (right) criticized Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch for their votes in overturning Roe V. Wade after previously claiming it was settled law during their confirmation hearings 

Kavanaugh (left) and Neil Gorsuch (right) were among the five conservative justices to vote to end American's federal right to abortions on Friday

As a result of their ruling on Friday, abortion was automatically outlawed in 18 states, thanks to specially-devised 'trigger laws' and historic bans that were automatically reenacted after Friday's ruling.

Thirteen states prepared trigger laws which would automatically outlaw terminations in the event of a ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which was widely-anticipated.

They are: Arkansas; Idaho; Kentucky; Louisiana; Mississippi; Missouri; North Dakota; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah and Wyoming.

Abortion bans in those states will now become law within 30 days.

Five other states have also now banned terminations, after historic laws superseded by the 1973 Roe ruling automatically came back into place.

Among those five are two Democrat-governed states - Michigan and Wisconsin.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers have both sought to overturn those bans in the court. But they remain in place for now, and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced Friday afternoon that it was suspending terminations while awaiting clarification on the law.

Other states with newly-re-enacted historic bans are Alabama, Arizona and West Virginia.

Eight other states are also set to enact new anti-abortion laws. Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina all attempted to ban abortion after the six-week mark.

Those laws were branded unconstitutional, but will likely be revisited now Roe has ended. And Florida, Indiana, Montana as well as Nebraska are all working on plans to ban or restrict terminations.

There are 18 states that have near-total bans on their books, while four more have time-limit band and four others are likely to pass new bans if Roe is overturned

 Still, Vice President Kamala Harris told supporters that the fight is not over, declaring that voters will have 'the final word'.

'This is not over,' Harris said on Friday, speaking at a conference in Plainfield, Illinois. 

'You have the power to elect leaders who will defend and protect your rights.'

Harris continued: 'Millions of women in America will go to bed tonight without access to the health care and reproductive care that they had this morning. 

'Without access to the same health care or reproductive health care that their mothers and grandmothers had for 50 years.'