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‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Axes Texas Filming of New HBO Project Over Abortion Ban Law

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22.09.2021 - 00:53

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David Simon isn’t messing with Texas, he’s done with the place.The Wire creator took to social media yesterday and today 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.If an employer, this is beyond politics.

I’m turning in scripts next month on an HBO non-fiction miniseries based on events in Texas, but I can’t and won’t ask female cast/crew to forgo civil liberties to film there.

What else looks like Dallas/Ft. Worth? https://t.co/q6Py6XikYh— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 20, 2021Already 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

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