It was about time Seth Meyers took “A Closer Look” at the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that frozen embryos are people.

Following “The Daily Show,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” the “Late Night” host zeroed in on former President Donald Trump’s reaction to the Feb. 16 ruling.

In the segment titled “Trump and GOP Furiously Backpedal After Alabama Embryo Ruling Threatens IVF,” Meyers first discussed what he called Trump “repeating his lies about the 2020 election at the far-right Conservative Political Action Conference” and then shifted to how “Republicans panicked over an Alabama court ruling that put access to fertility treatments at risk.”

Trump said last week he supports “the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America” in response to the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling. “Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, including the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Meyers, a longtime critic of Trump, noted the Alabama ruling repeatedly cited the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, which nullified a federally guaranteed right to abortion, and then played a clip of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham discussing the topic on Fox News while insisting Republicans have no intention of banning IVF or birth control.

“How can you claim that this has nothing to do with Roe v. Wade and the Republicans won’t go after fertility clinics when that’s exactly what they just did?,” Meyers said. “The ruling was issued by Republican judges in Alabama who ran for the state’s supreme court as Republicans who cited a ruling overturning Roe v. Wade that was written by Republican justices, who were appointed by Republican presidents including a guy named Donald Trump. Saying this has nothing to do with Republicans is like saying the Dolly Parton song ‘Jolene’ has nothing to do with a woman named Jolene.”

Meyers continued, “The threat to fertility treatments and IVF in Alabama is the inevitable consequence of your actions. You can’t say you’re pro-IVF if you’re also in favor of so-called fetal personhood, which puts IVF at risk. Voters know that.”

Meyers also suggested Trump is “spooked” because he later issued a statement in support of IVF during a rally.

“The Alabama ruling is a direct result of the GOP’s successful, decades-long push to overturn Roe, and now they’re shamelessly trying to pretend they had nothing to do with it,” Meyers said. “In a normal democracy, they would have to abandon the doctrine of fetal personhood because of how extreme it is, but MAGA conspiracy theorists have broken the normal mechanisms of politics.”

Watch the entire segment in the video above.

Attorney General Steve Marshall’s statement on Friday that his office has “no intention” of prosecuting IVF clinics or families who use the procedure. While the state says it has no plans to prosecute IVF providers or families, those entities could still be held liable for wrongful death in civil suits as a result of the Alabama Supreme Court decision.

Alabama’s Republican lawmakers are considering legislation to protect in vitro fertilization and their vision of the right to life following the ruling. Democratic lawmakers in the state filed a bill last Thursday classifying fertilized eggs or human embryos outside of a uterus as “not considered an unborn child or human being for any purpose under state law.” The bill, HB 225, would protect in vitro fertilization. State Sen. Tim Melson, (R-Florence), also said last week that he plans to file a bill to address the issue.

After the surprise ruling, three fertility clinics in the state paused services, placing embryos and hopeful parents in limbo. Clinics and patients are planning public demonstrations this week.