AMC is the latest major entertainment company to reconsider producing in Georgia in the face of the anti-abortion legislation signed into law in May.
Per Forbes, AMC will “reevaluate its activity” in the state should the bill go into effect, which means the long-running hit “The Walking Dead” could look for a new home for the first time in its 10-season run.Per a statement made by an AMC spokesperson, “If this highly restrictive legislation goes into effect, we will reevaluate our activity in Georgia.
Similar bills — some even more restrictive — have passed in multiple states and have been challenged.
This is likely to be a long and complicated fight and we are watching it all very closely.”The statement refers to the so-called Heartbeat Bill signed by Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp on May 7, which bans abortion after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat — about six weeks into a pregnancy,
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