Virginia State Del. Bob Marshall (via Facebook)

On Saturday Night Live this past weekend, Amy Poehler dropped in on her former “Weekend Update” co-anchor Seth Meyers to riff on the infamously guys-only birth control hearing by the House Oversight Committee, a wealthy backer of Rick Santorum asserting that “back in [his] days” women used aspirin tablets as contraception, and finally a Virginia state legislature measure that would define conception as beginning of life.

Pro-choice activists say the “fetal personhood” bill, as it’s popularly known, would criminalize access to birth control and all but outlaw abortion. The bill passed the Virginia House of Delegates last week, though its fate in the state senate is not assured.

On “Weekend Update,” Meyers and Poehler sprung into one of their skewering “Really? With Seth and Amy” bits. And when they arrived at the personhood bill, they were unsparing.

“[Virginia] also passed a bill that said life begins at conception,” Meyers said. “What’s next? Life begins at last call? Life begins when you click ‘send’ on your Match.com profile?”

And this came after Meyers and Poehler bashed Virginia’s other recent piece of anti-abortion legislation, one requiring women considering the termination of a pregnancy to first undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound procedure. “Trans-vaginal is my favorite airline. I got so many frequent flyer miles on trans-vaginal that I always get upgraded to lady business,” Poehler said.

But, wait! Turns out State Del. Bob Marshall, the sponsor of the personhood bill, was watching. Speaking to the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Marshall responded to the “Weekend Update” barbs with some jokes of his own:

“I was scandalized, shocked at the rampant sexist nature of this,” said Marshall, with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. ”I mean for example, that chauvinist Seth answers a question about pregnancy when in fact, it should have been Baby [Mama] who answers the question about pregnancy. I’ll bet Seth has never been pregnant.”

Hold on. Is Marshall admitting he saw Baby Mama, the 2008 comedy in which Poehler plays a rube of a surrogate mother for Tina Fey’s baby-crazy single businesswoman? Pop culture points, I suppose.

Still, Marshall turned deadly serious when getting to the actual specifics of his bill. The delegate from Manassas, who is running against former Sen. George Allen for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Webb, said people are reading his bill all wrong.

“This doesn’t do any of the stuff that 95 of the people are saying out there,” he said. ”It doesn’t abolish abortion, it doesn’t get rid of birth control, it doesn’t affect in-vitro.”

Women’s health advocates, pro-choice groups and “Baby Mama” herself would appear to disagree.