Abortion Activists Shame Studios for Not Offering More Abortion Services
By Movieguide® Contributor
Showrunners for Abortion Rights recently released a report card in a name-and-shame tactic that harassed studios for having more pro-life policies.
The activists condemned studios for not having more services in place for workers in pro-life sanctuary states such as Texas.
According to their report, studios including Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, Netflix, and more will not cover employees traveling out of state to receive an abortion. Furthermore, none of the studios covered legal expenses for employees who may be facing charges for receiving illegal abortions.
While the report condemned these studios, Movieguide® is thankful for some of these pro-life policies that protect children in the womb.
These harassment tactics are nothing new for the group.
Movieguide® reported on the letters that the group sent last year:
The coalition addressed the letter to each studio president of an original letter addressed to AMC Networks, Amazon Studios, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, The Walt Disney Company, and Warner Bros. Discovery.
“We appreciate your stated mutual concern for safeguarding employees’ health, safety, and privacy, but your assertions fall far short of a response sufficient to ensure workplace safety and prevent inevitable gender discrimination within our industry,” the second letter reads.
The letter listed a specific set of demands and expect a response by Labor Day.
The letter’s demands read:
Given that there are productions in abortion-hostile states right now, where protections are needed immediately, we request The Walt Disney Company’s answers regarding the following demands by Labor Day (11:59pm PST September 5, 2022):
A clear, detailed, and uniform plan of action to ensure all employees and other production workers have access to lifesaving healthcare in the case of ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, placental abruption, sudden onset preeclampsia, etc. This plan should include a guarantee that all employees and other production workers in need of emergency reproductive healthcare can be transported expeditiously across state lines, to minimize the likelihood of injury or death.
Policies and procedures that guarantee privacy around abortion access.
Policies and procedures that guarantee job security and non-retaliation if a member of a production must take time off to travel for reproductive healthcare from states where abortion is criminalized.
Guaranteed coverage for attorneys’ fees, court expenses, and fines for any employees or other production workers who are prosecuted for abortion-related crimes.
The appointment of a Reproductive Health Care Officer for every production in an abortion-hostile location.
Movieguide® Editor Dr. Tom Snyder said this about Hollywood’s abortion-related policies:
The major entertainment companies are making a humongous mistake. The companies, including Paramount Global (which runs CBS-TV), Disney (which runs ABC-TV), Comcast (which runs Universal Pictures and NBC-TV), Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery, and others, have decided to pay for the travel and lodging costs of any employee who “needs” to travel out of state to get an abortion, to kill their unborn baby.
In statements released to their employees and the press, entertainment executives cited, among other things, “reproductive health care,” “reproductive care,” “family planning,” and “constitutional protections for abortion.”
This decision and the accompanying political jargon are irrational, filled with falsehoods and evil. First of all, there’s another human being in the woman’s body. The notion of “reproductive health” or “reproductive care” must certainly include the health of the baby, because the baby, including the biological system designed by God to keep the baby alive, is clearly part of a woman’s reproduction process. To exclude the baby and his or her health and health care is an arbitrary decision that makes no sense logically. It’s also counter-factual if not unscientific.
Furthermore, to deny a human being, especially a defenseless one like a preborn baby, the right to life is clearly an evil, immoral decision, whether one believes in any god or not. This kind of murder is the worst moral crime one can possibly commit. Only mass murder exceeds such a despicable immorality. Clearly, a woman does not have the legal or moral “right” to kill her baby!
Finally, by promoting and supporting the murder of preborn babies is not in the best interests of a company and its shareholders and investors.
