Abortion Ban Rattles America's Top Film State
- Georgia’s biggest studio backed by noted social conservative
- ‘I don’t think Brian Kemp really understood what he did’
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No one meant for this to happen: That’s the quiet buzz in Georgia’s film and business communities this week, as more major Hollywood studios threatened to leave the U.S.’s top movie and television production state because of its new abortion ban.
Georgia’s entertainment industry didn’t see it coming. The ban wasn’t expected to clear the legislature -- and barely did. Even Brian Kemp, the Republican governor who campaigned in support of the kind of law Georgia enacted, put forward a milder, largely symbolic anti-abortion measure once in office. Abortion foes weren’t having it. The law Kemp finally signed bans most abortions after six weeks -- unless the courts intervene before it takes effect in January.