After Georgia Republicans voted to effectively criminalize abortion in the state with a horrific, near-total ban on the procedure, some powerful figures in the film industry called for a boycott if the law goes into effect.
a campaign called #StayAndFightGeorgia to ask companies to stay, and to raise money for the American Civil Liberties Union’s legal challenge to the abortion law. The boycott is “ultimately hurting more people than it is going to do any justice,” one anonymous workerSimilarly, Hollywood producer and investor Peter Chernin has launched a campaign to raise $15 million for the ACLU’s fight, and urged companies to stay and fight.
Still, an increasing number of Hollywood production companies are threatening to pull projects from Georgia, looking instead to relocate to places like New Mexico, a film-friendly state that poses far fewer restrictions on abortion., Hollywood’s exodus from Louisiana and Georgia has led to a spike in inquiries from production crews, and the state “is set to more than double its annual state spending cap on film incentives.
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