Hollywood throws women overboard by keeping silent on Georgia abortion law

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'There’s no mystery about why the studios are keeping mum: They’ve been bought off.' More from columnist hiltzikm:

The MPAA’s commitment to “monitor developments” won’t do. Let’s be clear: There’s nothing left to monitor. The MPAA tries to downplay the gravity of Georgia’s offense against women’s reproductive rights by pointing out that “similar legislation has been attempted in other states, and has either been enjoined by the courts or currently being challenged. The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the legal process.

It’s hard to imagine a more craven stance. Georgia passed this law overtly to invite a court ruling, figuring that an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court will use it, and other state laws like it, to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision declaring abortion restrictions unconstitutional.

Silence on this scale is the enemy of women’s rights. Silence from the Hollywood community encouraged Georgia to pass the law in the first place, and silence will fortify the courts’ willingness to wave it through. What the studios don’t seem to understand is that their compact with Georgia cuts both ways. They collect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks, but Georgia gets jobs, bragging rights and glitter in return. Had the studios said that it wouldn’t be worth their souls to stand by with their mouths shut as the state trampled on women’s rights, the betting here is that this law would not have happened.

, which would have given legal cover to LGBTQ discrimination. They stopped that bill in its tracks. Are they condoning this law because the tax payoffs in Georgia are bigger now than they were in 2016, or because to the film industry, women just don’t count?

 

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hiltzikm I've always been pro-choice, but it seems a lot of left leaning people are becoming tyrants. Speak with your own voice. Vote. Stop bullying. Some people in the studios might be pro-life. These terrorist tactics are making the country so ugly.

hiltzikm Abortion advocates don’t represent all women and should not be presented as such. Millions of American women are pro-life.

hiltzikm Actors always have the choice not to work on any production that will be filming there. The studios will get the message soon enough...

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