Gov. Brian Kemp has delayed an annual trip to Los Angeles to promote Georgia’s film industry as movie executives, producers and actors criticize the state’s new abortion ban.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the delay, announced Tuesday, comes about a week after Kemp signed a bill into law that bans most abortions as soon as cardiac activity is detected in the womb, generally around six weeks.
Critics have called the ban unconstitutional, and abortion-rights activists threatened to protest the May 22 film event.
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