Showrunners Behind Abortion Safety Protocols Letters Speak Out for the First Time, Reveal Second Letter to the Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Kate Aurthur editorThe coalition of television showrunners and creators who’ve mobilized in recent weeks around the pressing issue of abortion safety protocols on set have now sent a second letter to the studios.The letter was blasted out Monday afternoon to each studio president, as well as to the members of the studios’ boards of directors — and copied to the Motion Picture Association, which on Aug.

10 collectively had answered on behalf of eight of the recipients of the original letter: AMC Networks, Amazon Studios, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros.

Discovery.That response by the studios is of particular concern to the showrunner coalition. Their second letter — which was obtained by Variety, and is included in full below — begins by thanking studios for answering by the Aug.

10 deadline set by the first missive from the 411 showrunners, sent on July 28, and subsequently backed up on Aug. 1 by an additional 594 male creatives.