After showrunners mobilized to call for abortion safety protocols at a studio level, those studios issued a collective response. Their letter doesn't address specific demands, while also ignoring the call to cease donations to anti-choice politicians.
in states where abortion has been outlawed, or soon will be. The showrunners want systems in place to ensure safe, funded and private travel for an employee seeking an abortion; they want protocols for care for “ectopic pregnancies and other pregnancy complications” during production; and they want guaranteed safeguards “regarding criminal and civil legal protection” for those who help an employee get an abortion.
These demands from the creative community were incited by the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs decison, which overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending federal protections for abortion access. It goes on to say that they are “continuing to evaluate ways that we can best provide for our employees and workers who support our productions,” which appears to open a door for more protocols to be put in place.
Each of our individually designed corporate health plans provides comprehensive health care coverage for our respective employees. We have been independently updating our respective employees – who live and work throughout the country – as plans and policies change and expand to provide reproductive care and other support now needed in states that have restricted or outlawed abortion access.
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