Hollywood's big players stay quiet on Georgia abortion law as those working in the 'Hollywood of the South' resist calls for a filming boycott, lbahr and sanya_mansoor report.
May 16, 2019
But in the week since Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, none of the major film or television studios have commented on the issue or altered production plans. The backlash has been limited to smaller production companies, like Color Force , Killer Films , “The Wire” creator David Simon of Blown Deadline Productions and the Duplass Brothers Productions .
Georgia’s “heartbeat bill” would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. Unless it’s blocked in court, it is set to go into effect in 2020. The ACLU has already said the group will mount a legal challenge. “That to me is a sort of murky pivot that allows people to keep their jobs and tax rebates and also seemingly support the cause,” Donnelly said. ” more of a solution for Hollywood than it is addressing the values and the morality the boycott raises for women across this industry.”as the governor in neighboring Alabama on Wednesday signed the nation’s most stringent anti-abortion measure into law
Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost a contentious gubernatorial race against Kemp, tweeted Wednesday that she respects the calls for a boycott, “but I do not believe it is the most effective, strategic choice for change.” Molly Coffee, a film production designer in Georgia, helped start a petition with other women in the film industry urging Hollywood not to leave the state and emphasizing her commitment to fight the new abortion law.
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