This past week over 400 female television series creators and showrunners sent out letters to the most powerful Hollywood studio executives, calling for safety protocols to be made for their pregnant employees in states where the procedure has been made illegal. Some showrunners and creators that attached their signatures to the letter are big names like Shonda Rhimes, Issa Rae, Natasha Lyonne, Ava DuVernay, Mindy Kaling, Elizabeth Meriwether, Pamela Adlon, and hundreds of others.
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Another letter was issued to these television and film companies on Monday, pushing for the same change as the one before it, calling for a concrete response from the companies by 11:59 pm on August 10th. The letter also stressed this issue as an “emergency” for workers who reside in states such as Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, which will have anti-abortion laws instated soon by the Dobbs decision, which will lead to these women losing their rights to a safe and legal abortion procedure.
As the signers of these letters await a response from these companies, their cry for change has managed to send shock waves through the entertainment business and has brought some needed attention to the pressing issue that is abortion laws in the United States. These men stepping up and backing their female co-workers provides an ounce of hope and allows women who are struggling to grapple with the Supreme Court’s decision, that they are in no way alone, and that this is everyone’s fight to have these rights reinstated, not just women.
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Source: Variety
