A growing number of major studios — including Netflix, Sony and Warner Bros — are speaking out against Georgia’s new abortion bill. The so-called ‘fetal heartbeat bill’ is a ban on abortion after more than six weeks of pregnancy, and is based on bad science that essentially defines ‘heartbeat’ as electrical activity from a few embryonic cells. The new legislation will come into force in 2020 unless it’s overturned in court. Georgia has become known as ‘the Hollywood of the South‘ in no small part thanks to generous tax breaks that attract filmmakers. But as Disney CEO Bob Iger has said, it ...
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