TEXAS ABORTION LAWMAKER DAN FLYNN LACKS BASIC ABORTION KNOWLEDGE

Protesters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court March 2 as it takes up a major abortion case concerning a Texas law that imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinic buildings. In an interview that aired Monday, TV show host Samantha Bee criticized state Representative Dan Flynn, who co-authored the Texas law, for his lack of knowledge about abortion.

One might assume the co-author of an abortion law about to be discussed in the Supreme Court—and with the potential to affect millions of women—would be well-versed in topics of reproductive health and specifically, well, abortion. But one would be wrong in the case of Texas state Representative Dan Flynn, who apparently thinks women need to be “cut open” to have an abortion.

The titular host of the new show Full Frontal With Samantha Bee raked the Republican lawmaker over the coals in an interview, which aired in a segment on Monday’s episode.

“Everything’s big in Texas!” reads the video’s description on YouTube, and then adds in parentheses, “Except for the amount of knowledge about health care or women's bodies required to completely gut abortion access.”