Jameela Jamil Warner Media Upfronts 2019

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00:00The past last night, you have been really outspoken about it.

00:04You opened up about your own.

00:05Just can you comment for me briefly?

00:09I think that we can all agree that the people who are currently alive right now

00:15aren't necessarily all being looked after and taken care of,

00:17and there isn't much health care available to people,

00:20and there's a huge opioid crisis across America,

00:23and there are so many children who still don't have any homes to go to

00:26because their parents are unable to look after them or weren't ready to have them.

00:30And so there are so many people currently living who still aren't being looked after.

00:33It's important to register the difference between being pro-birth and being pro-life

00:38because you're not thinking about the life afterwards.

00:40There's no setup to help the teenage girls who might be forced now to have children

00:44or the rape victims who are being forced to have their rapist baby

00:47and have to look at someone who reminds them of their rapist every single day

00:52and the rapist gets visitation rights to that baby.

00:54And the rapist will only get maybe up to 10 years in prison,

00:57but a doctor who performs an abortion gets something like 99 years plus,

01:02and you yourself can be punished and sent to jail for a very long time

01:07if you have an abortion even out of state.

01:09This is a crisis not just for women.

01:12This isn't just a way of policing women's bodies and controlling us,

01:15and it really has very little effect on men whatsoever.

01:18But also, what happens to all of those children?

01:21George is going to be inundated with children in need of foster cares.

01:24It's like, what are they going to do?

01:26How are they going to house all of those children?

01:28And there's nothing wrong with foster care.

01:29Foster care is an incredibly important and amazing thing to provide for children,

01:33but there's only so much.

01:34There's only so many people who have the funding or the space to take in children.

01:39And so no one's thinking ahead.

01:41They're just thinking of the...

01:43It's almost as if there's more value for a person when they're in the womb

01:46than there is once they're on the outside.

01:48And so we really need to have a better plan because this isn't working

01:51and everyone's so upset and there is time to reverse this.

01:54And we really need to because there's so much in jeopardy.