Directors Guild President ‘Appalled’ by Supreme Court’s Abortion Draft Decision

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eliminate a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body. I strongly support the rightfor DGA members [to] be able to make their own reproductive health care decisions and have accessto safe abortion services,” Linka Glatter said in a statement Monday. “We must not return to that dark time in our nation’s history when unsafe and illegal back-alley abortions endangered or ended the lives of so many women.”“I am proud to join so many individual and collective voices in our industry and our nation whoare standing up to protect freedom of choice and hope that as the Supreme Court justices maketheir final deliberations, they hear our shared condemnation of this possible outcome and willconsider the profoundly negative impact this will have on the lives of women,” the statement continued.The DGA chief’s condemnation follows similar statements made by the leaders of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA last week, with the WGA calling on studios “to consider the laws of each state when choosing production locations to ensure that our members will never be denied full access to reproductive healthcare.”SAG-AFTRA’s leaders, in their own statement, said the actors guild is “closely monitoring the legal environment around these laws and we will not stay silent in the face of this injudicious attack on women’s rights and health.”Last week, Politico leaked a draft decision written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that will overturn the 50-year precedent of Roe v.