1,500 Hollywood Creatives Demand Studios Stand Up for Reproductive Rights
thewrap.comresponded to the letter in vague terms without addressing any specific demands, the showrunner group hit back with a second letter that more clearly delineated the dangers pregnant women face in abortion-hostile states, this time sent directly to studio heads.
To date, several studios have pledged to work with the coalition to set up a 24-hour Reproductive Health Safety Hotline and to develop employee protections in states like Georgia, Texas and Alabama where abortion access has been restricted. (In August, Lionsgate, which was not among the studios the group reached out to, pledged to mandate new policies and protections for employee abortion care.)Going forward, coalition members said they will remain focused on holding studios accountable for the commitments they’ve made.
And they are clear-eyed about just how rough the road ahead might be. “It’s incredibly complicated. And that’s one of the reasons that we have never said, ‘We can come up with an answer,'” the showrunner said. “The answer may well be that there is no way to keep cast crew staff, other individuals safe in an abortion-hostile state.” That’s a bleak possibility, to be sure.
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