Over 400 tv creators and showrunners united and despatched a letter Thursday to top-level executives demanding particular protocols to guard pregnant workers in states the place abortion is now banned.
These corporations being addressed embody the likes of Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC Common, Apple, amongst others, in accordance with Selection.
The letter is signed by the likes of such A-list expertise as Shonda Rhimes, Issa Rae, Natasha Lyonne, Ava DuVernay, Vanessa Bayer, Chelsea Handler, Mindy Kaling, and extra stars.
The group is demanding that among the largest media corporations within the U.S. define particular protections for workers working in states which have outlawed abortion after the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade.
In addition they demand protocols for medical look after ‘ectopic pregnancies and different being pregnant problems that require medical therapy,’ in addition to ‘indemnification and protection in opposition to legal responsibility, for any member of a manufacturing who facilitates … protocols or offers … coverage data and pointers to an worker looking for an abortion.’
The letter goes on to ask that the businesses ‘Pledge to discontinue all political donations to anti-abortion candidates and political motion committees instantly.’
Main change: The US Supreme Court docket overturned Roe V. Wade on June 24
‘It’s unacceptable to ask any particular person to decide on between their human rights and their employment,’ the letter states.
The signatories have demanded written responses from the businesses inside 10 days of July 28.
Nonetheless, the letter stopped wanting stating what’s going to occur if the businesses don’t adjust to the calls for inside that time-frame.
The complete letter and its signatories that was despatched to Netflix, Paramount, Lionsgate, Amazon and AMC is beneath
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We, the undersigned, are 411 present creators, showrunners and head writers who presently work throughout each community and streaming platform within the trade right now, together with these managed by Netflix.
We’ve got grave considerations concerning the lack of particular manufacturing protocols in place to guard these at work for Netflix in anti-abortion states.
It’s unacceptable to ask any particular person to decide on between their human rights and their employment. This case raises fundamental issues of equality, well being, and security within the office. Many people wouldn’t have the careers and households we’ve right now if we had not been granted the liberty to decide on what was greatest for ourselves. We’re dedicated, as a gaggle, to defending our basic human rights and people of our colleagues.
At present, any pregnant particular person engaged on one in all your productions in states which have criminalized abortion does so at nice danger. It can be crucial that Netflix understands these dangers and has complete options in place. The aim of this letter is to evaluate your present security protocols and protections on this very important matter to find out whether or not or not we are going to proceed to work in these excessive danger environments.
Inside ten enterprise days of right now we require evaluate of your present abortion security plan detailing Netflix’s insurance policies and processes to make sure our security, defend our well being and defend our human rights. We anticipate that the specifics of your present plan deal with this emergency in full, together with however not restricted to:
● Printed insurance policies and procedures to supply an abortion journey subsidy for workers of your productions together with particular data on how the worker’s medical privateness can be safeguarded.
● Protocols outlining the scope of medical care for workers of your productions, together with ectopic pregnancies and different being pregnant problems that require medical therapy through abortion whereas working for Netflix.
● Coverage concerning prison and civil authorized safety, together with indemnification and protection in opposition to legal responsibility, for any member of a manufacturing who facilitates Netflix’s protocols or offers Netflix’s coverage data and pointers to an worker looking for an abortion.
● Pledge to discontinue all political donations to anti-abortion candidates and political motion committees instantly.
As productions are presently in progress in states the place abortion is prohibited or pending criminalization, your rapid written response is required and anticipated inside ten enterprise days of July twenty eighth, 2022. We additionally welcome the chance to evaluate the written response along with your firm representatives for added context do you have to want. Our evaluate can be performed by the undersigned and our authorized representatives.
Signed,
Megan Abbott
Diane Ademu-John
Ali Adler
Pamela Adlon
Abby Ajayi
Desiree Akhavan
Zakiyyah Alexander
Bisha Ok. Ali
Gabrielle Allan
Kayla Alpert
Sofia Alvarez
Jane Anderson
Lucia Aniello
Amy Aniobi
Valerie Armstrong
Nicole Jefferson Asher
Michelle Ashford
Liz Astrof
Meredith Averill
Rachel Axler
Annie Baker
Gemma Baker
Jenna Bans
Carol Barbee
Sara Bareilles
Tanya Barfield
Kate Barnow
Kristen Bartlett
Vanessa Bayer
Nichole Beattie
Monica Beletsky
Lake Bell
Shaz Bennett
Eleanor Bergstein
Julia Bicknell
Jenny Bicks
Jocelyn Bioh
Ashley Nicole Black
Amy Bloom
Rachel Bloom
Andrea Thornton Bolden
Kathryn Borel
Hannah Bos
Rebecca Boss
Yvette Bowser
Christine Boylan
Patricia Breen
Kelli Breslin
Corinne Brinkerhoff
Mara Brock Akil
Aline Brosh McKenna
Jess Brownell
Julia Brownell
Carrie Brownstein
Gemma Burgess
Sarah Burgess
Lila Byock
Jennifer Cacicio
Gloria Calderon Kellett
Wendy Calhoun
Sheila Callaghan
Dana Calvo
Kat Candler
Kay Cannon
Erin Cardillo
Bridget Carpenter
Charise Castro Smith
Ilene Chaiken
Yahlin Chang
Hailey Chavez
Semi Chellas
Cindy Chupack
Zoanne Clack
Eliza Clark
Maisha Closson
Diablo Cody
Anne Cofell Saunders
Leila Cohan
Emily Prepare dinner
Akela Cooper
Fernanda Coppel
Elizabeth Craft
Jennifer Crittenden
Aïda Mashaka Croal
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Whitney Cummings
Alexandra Cunningham
Michelle Dean
Jamie Denbo
Chelsea Devantez
Lydia Diamond
Marnie Dickens
Cara DiPaolo
Katie Dippold
Kiley Donovan
Savannah Dooley
Bash Doran
Karey Dornetto
Caroline Dries
Ariel Dumas
Lena Dunham
Cirocco Dunlap
Ava DuVernay
Laura Eason
Grace Edwards
Kerry Ehrin
Erin Ehrlich
Diane English
Anya Epstein
Maya Erskine
Jane Espenson
Bridget Everett
Sarah Fain
Gina Fattore
Halley Feiffer
Liz Feldman
Nancy Fichman
Hannah Fidell
Debra J. Fisher
Lang Fisher
Anna Fishko
Jennifer Flackett
Liz Flahive
Stephany Folsom
Leah Fong
Claudia Forestieri
Dana Fox
Emily Fox
Anna Fricke
Hannah Friedman
Jena Friedman
Liz Friedman
Maggie Friedman
Kelly Galuska
Sera Gamble
Jessica Gao
Daisy Gardner
Valentina Garza
Leila Gerstein
Melissa James Gibson
Gina Gionfriddo
Karin Gist-Brown
Gracie Glassmeyer
Jessica Goldberg
Sarah Goldfinger
Emily Gordon
Philippa Goslett
Susannah Grant
Tash Grey
Misha Inexperienced
Kathy Greenberg
Sarah Gubbins
Lauren Gussis
Jenny Hagel
Barbara Corridor
Katori Corridor
Jenny Han
Lisa Hanawalt
Chelsea Handler
Liz Hannah
Alma Har’el
Amy B. Harris
Dee Harris-Lawrence
Becky Hartman Edwards
Leslye Headland
Sian Heder
Eileen Heisler
Liz Heldens
DeAnn Heline
Cody Heller
Emily Heller
Felicia D. Henderson
Christal Henry
Tara Herrmann
Sara Hess
Regina Hicks
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Winnie Holzman
A.M. Properties
Karen Leigh Hopkins
Shannon M. Houston
Melinda Hsu Taylor
Soo Hugh
Darlene Hunt
Lauren Iungerich
Our Girl J
Abbi Jacobson
Casey Johnson
Erika L. Johnson
Joanna Johnson
Kathleen Jordan
Alexa Junge
Mindy Kaling
Laeta Kalogridis
Angela Kang
Kourtney Kang
Jenn Kao
Marta Kauffman
Zoe Kazan
Courtney A. Kemp
Nahnatchka Khan
Callie Khouri
Claire Kiechel
Marlene King
Michelle King
Corinne Kingsbury
Laura Kittrell
Julie Klausner
Jenny Klein
Jessi Klein
Erica Shelton Kodish
Jenji Kohan
Anna Konkle
Jenni Konner
Liz Kruger
Sarah Kucserka
Bridget Kyle
Stephanie Laing
Noga Landau
Amanda Lasher
Sheila Lawrence
Janet Leahy
Christina Lee
Younger Jean Lee
Lauren LeFranc
Kasi Lemmons
Jennifer Levin
Chris Levinson
Debbie Liebling
Adele Lim
Erica Lipez
Amy Lippman
Crystal Liu
Kari Lizer
Attica Locke
Melissa London Hilfers
Rachel Caris Love
Jenny Lumet
Ashley Lyle
Natasha Lyonne
Monica Macer
Marguerite MacIntyre
Carina Adly MacKenzie
Jhoni Marchinko
Meg Marinis
Julie Martin
Felischa Marye
Britt Matt
Vanessa McCarthy
Abby McEnany
Shauna McGarry
Colleen McGuinness
Alexandra McNally
Carol Mendelsohn
Carly Mensch
Wendy Mericle
Elizabeth Meriwether
Erica Messer
Molly Smith Metzler
Allison Miller
Rina Mimoun
Arika Lisanne Mittman
Becky Mode
Raamla Mohamed
Lizzie Molyneux
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Jaclyn Moore
Lauren Morelli
LaToya Morgan
Dominique Morisseau
Maggie Mull
Michele Mulroney
Janine Nabers
Margaret Nagle
Tia Napolitano
Daniele Nathanson
Jessie Nelson
Kristin Newman
Lynn Nottage
Marti Noxon
Alissa Nutting
Jami O’Brien
Jessica O’Toole
Dr. Sonya Odamtten
Nkechi Okoro Carroll
Silvia Olivas
Tracy Oliver
Stacy Osei-Kuffour
Monica Owusu-Breen
Jan Oxenberg
Carolina Paiz
Michelle Paradise
Sallie Patrick
Ilana Peña
KC Perry
JJ Philbin
Julie Plec
Daria Polatin
Tracy Poust
Channing Powell
Kate Purdy
Jessica Queller
Issa Rae
Lisa Randolph
Ellen Rapoport
Robia Rashid
Joan Rater
Jacquelyn Reingold
Nicki Renna
Dara Resnik
Shonda Rhimes
Katie Wealthy
Erica Rivinoja
Katie Robbins
Kate Robin
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Marquita Robinson
Dailyn Rodriguez
Jessie Rosen
Melissa Rosenberg
Kim Rosenstock
Sharyn Rothstein
Julie Rottenberg
Amber Ruffin
Marja-Lewis Ryan
Tami Sagher
Erica Saleh
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
Tanya Saracho
Stephanie Savage
Lorene Scafaria
Beth Schacter
Jac Schaeffer
Robin Schiff
Holly Schlesinger
Sarah Schneider
Ali Schouten-Seeks
Heidi Schreck
Amy Schumer
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Beth Schwartz
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Francesca Sloane
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Rachel Specter
Nichelle Tramble Spellman
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Jen Statsky
KJ Steinberg
Dana Stevens
Christy Stratton
Veena Sud
Robin Swicord
Maurissa Tancharoen
Desta Tedros Reff
Sierra Teller Ornelas
Robin Thede
Betsy Thomas
Sarah Thompson
Merritt Tierce
Liz Tigelaar
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Lulu Wang
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