BoycottGeorgia for its abortion bill? Two major film productions just said they would.
Women hold signs during a protest against recently passed abortion ban bills at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta on May 21, 2019. The Georgia"heartbeat" bill would ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The decision was first reported by Time. Director Reed Morano told the outlet that two scouts had been working in the Savannah area to look for locations for several months; she had planned to visit the state this week. But those plans were scuttled after the bill was signed on May 7. Georgia was the first of a crop of Republican-dominated states that have moved to pass restrictive anti-abortion legislation in a bid to get the issue before the Supreme Court. The state’s bill bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected — as early as six weeks into pregnancy, or four weeks after a woman misses her first period.
The laws have touched off calls to boycott the state and its products among many prominent women and Democrats, including officials in Colorado and Maryland who said that they would work to divest state spending from Alabama.
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