Hi, welcome back.
With our stolen Supreme Court reconsidering Roe v. Wade,
we are on the verge of being trapped in a prison of abortion
laws we can't escape.
But I decided to try anyway.
NARRATOR: Locked doors, a bunch of clocks, and a wall of fame,
celebrating those who are important to the
reproductive justice movement--
Loretta Ross, the Yellowhammer Fund, and, of course, Roe.
Welcome to Samantha Bee's Reproductive
Justice Escape Room.
In my career, I've done so many
pieces about reproductive justice,
about abortion, about choice.
I don't have any more ways to talk about it.
NARRATOR: And because nothing is stronger
than the power of sisterhood, let
us introduce the game's first and only ever co-contestant.
Hi, I am Busy Philipps.
Two years ago, I had the honor and privilege
of testifying before Congress about my abortion.
And today, I'm doing an escape room?
NARRATOR: Sam and Busy will have 30 minutes
to solve a series of puzzles.
Once they do that, they'll have legalized abortion.
Wait, what?
Oh, sorry.
Once they do that, they'll be allowed to leave this room.
OK, we are going to go into the escape room.
I'm very nervous.
I'm so scared.
We're both really scared.
We're genuinely scared.
Just open the door.
Bye.
Oh, my God.
Are we locked in?
Yeah.
OK.
NARRATOR: First up, Republicans love to clock block
reproductive rights in America.
And time is ticking to save them.
Our contestants need to identify how
many of the clocks in this room have the same amount of digits
as the number of seasons in a year
that abortion should be legal.
Easy, right?
I don't even understand how an escape room works.
There are clocks over here clocks.
There's clocks?
Oh, the clocks that have four numbers on them.
Yes, I did it.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6.
So we know the first one is 6, right?
It doesn't work.
Oh. Oh, it works.
It works, guys.
We did it.
NARRATOR: Looks like they've got it.
Oh, good. We got a--
SAMANTHA BEE: It's a tool.
A tool.
NARRATOR: Fun fact.
Like the gears in this table, public support for abortion
has shifted.
Now, 59% of Americans support it in all or most cases.
SAMANTHA BEE: Oh, wait.
Look, look, there's a key.
BUSY PHILLIPS: I did it.
My god, let me out of this room.
Oh, and here--
BUSY PHILLIPS: What?
This is it.
Turn the key and scan your finger to start
the main power console.
It sounds complicated.
But it's actually much easier than getting
an abortion in most US states.
That is true.
NARRATOR: Not fun fact.
Approximately 6 and 10 women of reproductive age
live in states that are hostile to abortion rights.
SAMANTHA BEE: And scan your finger.
Whoa.
OK.
Succeed.
Well.
Oh, OK, well, all right.
NARRATOR: And now, on to the last step.
SAMANTHA BEE: This is the last step.
Oh.
BUSY PHILLIPS: Here we go.
SAMANTHA BEE: Busy, come on.
BUSY PHILLIPS: I should be able to fit this out.
SAMANTHA BEE: Oh, my God, there's another [BLEEP] room.
NARRATOR: Let's check in and see how
the contestants are holding up.
You know what?
Every once in a while, it's good to figure
out what your weaknesses are.
My weakness is escape rooms.
I wouldn't say that I carried the team,
but you could probably say that in the edit,
and it wouldn't be wrong necessarily.
NARRATOR: That first room took forever.
Let's see how they're doing at the Wall of Herstory.
SAMANTHA BEE: A brief herstory.
BUSY PHILLIPS: OK, let's see.
NARRATOR: First, there was nothing.
Then, there were a bunch of dude presidents, Roe,
and in 1976, Congress passed The Hyde
Amendment, which banned federal funding for most abortion care.
Somewhere around there, Jerry Falwell decided that abortion
would be a really good thing to focus his constituents
and followers on in order to get them to vote the way he wanted,
which was, essentially, you know, for racists.
NARRATOR: Classic Falwell.
The following eight states have pre-Roe abortion bans
in their laws, which would be immediately enforceable
if Roe was overturned.
NARRATOR: Now, Sam and Busy need to locate those eight
states on the map behind them.
First of all, here's my home state where I had my abortion--
Arizona.
NARRATOR: The people who live in these states
will likely lose their access to abortion
if SCOTUS overturns Roe.
BUSY PHILLIPS: West Virginia right here.
That's definitely in there.
We got that one right.
This is very hard.
I-P-P-I. OK, so guys, do you know how good
it would feel to codify Roe?
Orgasmic.
But like most men, we're not going to let you finish.
Rude.
So just put the first five letters of this word
in the crypt text.
OK.
BUSY PHILLIPS: That's over here.
This is just like the "Da Vinci Code."
This is G. Sam wasn't like super helpful.
I didn't even know these things existed.
How would I have known that?
Oh, we [INAUDIBLE].
BUSY PHILLIPS: Oh, shit.
Oh, it's a key.
I didn't know that.
Maybe this one goes here.
I didn't know that either.
Oh, wait, look, there's a red dot here and a red dot there.
Oh.
And then the mirror became transparent.
I didn't even see that.
NARRATOR: Holy shit.
This isn't over yet.
Now they have to count the plan B,
condoms, blazer's, and abstinence
pamphlets in the room.
It's the only abstinence thing that actually works.
It's a pamphlet with my face on it.
NARRATOR: The total number of each item
makes up the code that gets them out of the room.
Thank God.
So let's find the plan B's.
All the plan B's.
I know that an escape room is silly.
Oh.
But the things that are at stake right now are not silly at all.
Now we should count condoms.
If Roe gets overturned, all of the work that people have done
over the last many, many decades will be overturned, but also
just how we choose to live our lives
and how we choose to take care of ourselves and our families.
That's truly what's at stake.
5, 6, 8, 4.
Oh.
Oh, my god, what's in here?
Did we get out?
I think we got out.
Oh, my god, we're out.
Thank you. BUSY PHILLIPS: Great.
We're out. Oh, my god.
Oh, my god, that was too scary.
That was too scary.
Don't do it when I come out.
NARRATOR: Congratulations, you've escaped the escape room.
But unfortunately, you're still stuck in America.