Corporations, events face boycott threats over U.S. abortion laws

- Companies operating in Alabama and Georgia, ranging from Toyota to Netflix, as well as an Alabama music festival faced boycott threats on Friday after the states passed near-total bans on abortion.

Responding to the United States’ most restrictive laws on the procedure, activists have taken aim at media companies that use Georgia as a production hub and Alabama-based automakers such as Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz. Hangout Fest, a May 16-19 music festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama was targeted, with activists urging radio station SiriusXM to stop advertising the event and artists such as Cardi B, Travis Scott, Khalid and The Lumineers to boycott it.Activists were inspired by the partial success of boycotts that targeted Indiana over its 2015 religious freedom law, and North Carolina for its 2016 “bathroom bill” restricting their use by transgender people.

To date, only a few small film production companies have pulled out of Georgia, known as the “Hollywood of the South” for its $9.5 billion media production industry.

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Female film workers in Georgia urge Hollywood not to boycott over abortion banRather than urge big corporations to leave Georgia, female film makers say Hollywood should leverage its economic power to help fund the groups that are helping women endangered by the law. Hollywood doesn't care, they want to abort babies no matter the cost to society 'Endangered'? Seriously. Terminating a life in the womb ain't healthcare.
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