Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gloria Calderón Kellett on Potential Overturning of Roe v. Wade: ‘All They Are Doing Is Banning Safe Abortions’
07.05.2022 - 20:15
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn the wake of reports that the Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade, writer and producer Gloria Calderón Kellett is getting to work.While she said she is unable to incorporate women’s reproductive rights issues into storylines for Season 2 of her Amazon anthology series “With Love” because the scripts are locked, she says, “In my other stuff, will it be in there? Yeah! Especially women of color, especially poor women.
Rich women will be able to get abortions but we need to look at women of color and other communities.”Sarah Michelle Gellar adds, “All they are doing is banning safe abortions.”I spoke to Kellett and Gellar at a pre-Mother’s Day luncheon on Friday hosted by fair trade retailer The Little Market at Issima at the La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood. Kellett said she was in Washington, D.C.
last week lobbying for the National Endowment for the Arts. “We as storytellers are people that are visible.
We can go and effect policy and change,” she said. “We are actors, writers and directors, but we are also citizens of this country that can be a platform for many people.
That can be very powerful.”Kellett added, “ I think about the future of my kids and I want to leave it a more positive world.”Gellar cracked, “You’re leaving? I told my kids I’m going to haunt them forever.”The Little Market, founded in 2013 by Lauren Conrad and Hannah Skvarla, is a non-profit fair trade shop that supports economic self-sufficiency of women and other underserved communities.“Today, we’re celebrating all of the resilient mothers that we work with at Little Market,” Skvarla said. “When Lauren and I started Little Market almost 10 years ago it was before either of us were moms,
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