Georgia’s “Heartbeat Bill” Passes House, Heads To Governor’s Desk With Hollywood Watching
The Georgia House of Representatives narrowly passed a piece of legislation Friday known as the “Heartbeat Bill” that, if signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp, would ban abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected, or about six weeks.
The 92-78 “yes” vote (91 votes were needed for passage) on HB 481 comes as several members of the Hollywood film and TV industry — which generated $2.7 billion in direct spending in Georgia over the past year — have been calling for the bill to be voted down after it passed through the state Senate a week ago. Those calls came in part via an open letter penned earlier this week by Alyssa Milano to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and Kemp (and signed by more than 50 actors, writers and producers) as well as a warning from the WGA.
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Who the hell are these guys, our state survived and will survive without these pieces of shit trying to hold ga hostage over the almighty dollar.
Hollywood is being given leverage where there shouldn’t be any. I’m proud of Georgia for taking a stand.