DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter condemns the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Roe v. Wade

DGA Chairman Leslie Linka Glatter today joined a team of Hollywood union leaders who condemned a draft Supreme Court ruling that would be overturned. Against Rowe Wade And let the states decide whether to ban abortions.

“I am shocked that the Supreme Court is ready to ignore a 50-year precedent and abolish a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body,” she said in a statement. “I strongly support DGA members in making their own reproductive health decisions and accessing safe abortion care. We must not go back to the dark times in our nation’s history when dangerous and illegal abortions threatened or killed so many women.

“I am proud to join so many individual and collective voices in our industry and nation defending freedom of choice and I hope the Supreme Court justices have a final hearing, will heed our general condemnation of this possible outcome and consider the profound negative impact. “It will have an impact on women’s lives,” she added.

WGA West urges Hollywood not to consider filming in states that prohibit abortion

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, WGA East, WGA West and Actors’ Equity have issued statements condemning the draft opinions. The WGA has urged producers not to consider filming in states that prohibit abortion. SAG-AFTRA called the draft conclusion “sad and alarming” and “a tragic change in 50 years of progress in women’s access to health care”. The IATSE called on lawmakers to “immediately protect the reproductive health and other basic freedoms of Americans at all levels, or will replace those who do.” Actors’ Equity stated: “The reasoning used by Roe v. The abrogation against Wade could be used to undo progress on human rights in recent decades, including the rights of LGBTQ + people who have already been attacked in states across the country. “

Lowell Peterson, CEO of WGA East, plans to meet with the studios next year