There are over 20 productions shooting in GA” she wrote late Friday, “& the state just voted to strip women of their bodily autonomy. Hollywood! We should stop feeding GA economy.”

Milano ( “Charmed,” “Project Runway All Stars”) stars in Netflix’s dark pageant comedy “Insatiable,” which debuted last year. Season two is currently in production and she was on set Friday in Atlanta.

A couple of other actors such as Bradley Whitford and Ron Perlman joined in but her effort died on the Twitter vine.

Although many doctors and women’s rights groups are fighting the “heartbeat” bill, which would limit abortions once a doctor detects a heartbeat in a fetus (with some exceptions), the business community has largely stayed on the sidelines.

In comparison, in 2016, Hollywood production companies were vocally against a “religious liberty” bill which Gov. Nathan Deal ultimately did not sign.

Similar “heartbeat” bills have been held up in other states after legal challenges.

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State Policy Trends 2018: With Roe v. Wade in Jeopardy, States Continued to Add New Abortion Restrictions

Over the course of 2018, 15 states adopted 27 new restrictions on abortion and family planning (see chart); 23 of these seek to restrict abortion and the remaining four are aimed at family planning providers. This marks the lowest number of new abortion restrictions enacted in at least a decade.

Although the new restrictions span a wide range of issue areas, bans on some abortions and new reporting requirements for abortion providers are two that showcase the ways states appear to be laying the groundwork for future litigation that would restrict abortion or abolish it entirely.

Iowa’s ban is the most extreme antiabortion measure adopted this year; it would ban abortion at six weeks after the patient’s last menstrual period (LMP), based on the presence of a fetal heartbeat.

Like a similar measure adopted by North Dakota in 2013, enforcement of the law was immediately blocked pending judicial review. Also this year, Louisiana and Mississippi adopted measures banning abortion at 15 weeks LMP.

The Mississippi measure was challenged and in November, a federal district court struck down the ban.

In an unusual approach to drafting legislation, the Louisiana law was written to go into effect only if the Mississippi law was implemented.

Forty-three states have laws in effect that ban abortion at 20 weeks LMP or later, but none of the measures seeking to ban abortion earlier in pregnancy are in effect

Both Kentucky and Ohio enacted measures to ban the most commonly used method of abortion in the second trimester—standard dilation and evacuation. The Kentucky ban was immediately blocked by legal action, the Ohio law is scheduled to take effect in March 2019. Mississippi and West Virginia have similar laws in effect, while comparable laws in six other states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas) have been blocked (see Bans on Specific Abortion Methods Used After the First Trimester). As noted above, the case in Alabama has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

About half the states have long-standing requirements that abortion providers report to state agencies when complications occur (see Abortion Reporting Requirements). In 2018, three states (Arizona, Idaho and Indiana) enacted laws that go well beyond traditional reporting requirements. These laws greatly expand the scope of what is considered an abortion complication to include issues such as subsequent psychological or emotional problems, complications in subsequent pregnancies and later development of breast cancer. These provisions, which are not rooted in scientific evidence, appear to be part of a concerted effort by abortion opponents to build an evidence base to support their contention that abortion is dangerous.

Massachusetts repealed two long-standing abortion restrictions: the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban and a law requiring abortions after 13 weeks LMP to be performed in a hospital. Washington enacted a comprehensive reproductive health coverage law that requires private insurance coverage of abortion services in plans that also cover maternity care, with the same level of cost sharing as for maternity services. Louisiana adopted two measures: One exempts medication abortion from the requirements for the disposal of fetal tissue resulting from an abortion, and the other makes coercing someone into having an abortion a crime. Unfortunately, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a measure that would have required provision of medication abortion services on public college and university campuses.

More here..

https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2018/12/state-policy-trends-2018-roe-v-wade-jeopardy-states-continued-add-new-abortion