Alyssa heeft in een tweet Hllywood opgeroepen om niet langer te film in Georgia nadat in de staat een nieuwe wet aangenomen wet wat de mogelijkheden tot abortus voor vrouwen beperkt. Straks zouden vrouwen maar tot 6 weken een abortus kunnen krijgen i.p.v. tot 20 weken. Uitzonderingen worden gemaakt voor abortus en incest maar alleen als er een politierapport is opgemaakt waarin dit specifiek benoemd staat. De wet moet nu nog door het State hous (proviniciehuis) verder goed gekeurd worden. Alyssa’s Netflix serie “Insatiable” is één van de projecten die daar momenteel opgenomen wordt, of ze zelf voet bij stuk houd in haar eigen oproep is niet bekend.
There are over 20 productions shooting in GA & the state just voted to strip women of their bodily autonomy.
Hollywood! We should stop feeding GA economy. #HB481IsBadForBusiness
Heartbeat bill approved by Georgia Senate https://t.co/sFdahrIGnY https://t.co/TXJKMOPHcJ
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) 23 maart 2019
Georgia’s controversial “heartbeat bill” has not gone unnoticed in Hollywood.
Actress and “Project Runway: All Stars” host Alyssa Milano Friday tweeted that the bill, which would limit abortions to six weeks after conception, would “strip women of their bodily autonomy.”
Milano also stars in Netflix’s “Insatiable,” which films in Georgia.
The Georgia Senate passed the controversial bill Friday. HB481 would tightly restrict when women in Georgia can get abortions. Current law allows them up to 20 weeks gestation; the so-called “heartbeat” bill would roll it back to six weeks, when a heartbeat is detectable.
The bill makes exceptions for rape and incest, allowing abortion up to 20 weeks. However, it would require women to file “an official police report … alleging the offense of rape or incest” to qualify. The legislation now heads back to the state House, which will have to approve changes made in the Senate.
The ACLU issued a statement after the bill’s passage saying it would challenge the law if implemented. In October, Milano stressed the potential business effect of Georgia’s gubernatorial race, telling Vulture that she may push for “Insatiable” to film its next season in a different state if Brian Kemp won the election.
More than 92,000 Georgians are employed in the state for its various film and TV productions, Lee Thomas, the deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, said in January. It is now a $9.5 billion industry, with 455 productions show in fiscal year 2018.
At least eight TV shows and films are starting production in the state this month, WXIA-TV of Atlanta reports. Studios and entertainment advocates are watching the legislation closely, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. LaRonda Sutton, the board president of Women in Film & Television Atlanta and the founding director of the Mayor’s Office of Film & Entertainment for the city of Atlanta, told the ACJ, “as long as we don’t do anything silly and non-inclusive, we’ll be fine.” Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a “religious liberty” bill after Walt Disney and Marvel Studios — which filmed “Black Panther” and two “Avengers” movies in the state — threatened a boycott.
