Amanda Seyfried Stands Up for Refugees and Abortion Rights at Power of Women: ‘We Need to Be the Unstoppable Force’
variety.comEllise Shafer In Amanda Seyfried’s Power of Women speech on Thursday evening, the star of “The Dropout” honored the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance, a nonprofit that connects refugee children with crucial medical and mental health care.“This evening, we are gathered to recognize the Power of Women, and I can think of few women more powerful in vision and spirit than my friend, CNN senior international correspondent and the founder of INARA, Arwa Damon, who is sitting right there with us tonight,” Seyfried said. “It is her passion, her dedication, her fearlessness that has inspired me and inspired so many people.”She shared the story of Mia, a Syrian girl whose mother fled their neighborhood during an attack and fell into the rubble, shattering Mia’s bones. “INARA has provided the surgeries and the physical therapy that will allow Mia to fully recover, and ease the heart of her mother, her extraordinary mother,” Seyfried said.She also touched on the Supreme Court’s drafted decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade, saying that “women’s safety and security, as we have just been reminded, is far too often negotiable. And it’s not negotiable to me.”“There’s no better moment, not just to celebrate the power of us women, but to use it,” Seyfried continued. “In these very desperate times where theocrats are diligently working to eradicate our most basic right, we need to be the unstoppable force that creates and sustains community and who make the future better than the present.”Seyfried was introduced by her friend and “Million Ways to Die in the West” co-star Sarah Silverman, who also discussed Roe v.
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