'The Wire' Creator David Simon Axes Texas Filming Of New HBO Project Over Abortion Ban Law

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David Simon isn’t messing with Texas, he’s done with the place — at least as a location.

The Wire creator took to social media this week to announce and reiterate he will not film an upcoming Lone Star-set HBO project in the state due to the odious abortion ban law recently put in place.

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Already heading to the courts due to a challenge by the federal government and at least two suits arising out of a San Antonio physician revealing in the press this past weekend that he had recently performed an abortion in Texas, the new law went into effect earlier this month after the conservative dominated SCOTUS declined to block it.

Essentially a vigilante move, the GOP-backed Texas law outlaws a women’s right to choose once she is six weeks into her pregnancy. While defined as when a fetus develops a heartbeat, the month and a half timeline is often before many women even know they are pregnant. An open carry challenge to the widely threatened Roe v. Wade, the Texas law weaponizes citizens to bring civil actions of $100,000 or more against almost anyone who was a part of the process of a women getting an abortion in the state after six weeks of pregnancy.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wire-creator-david-simon-axes-215100440.html

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