SXSW Joins Fight Against Texas Abortion Bills: ‘We Are Appalled’

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterPablo Schreiber has signed onto the Hulu true crime series “Candy,” Variety has learned exclusively.The show tells the true story of Candy Montgomery, a housewife in Silicon Prairie, Texas, who murdered her best friend, Betty Gore, with an ax in 1980. Jessica Biel is attached to play Montgomery, while Melanie Lynskey will play Betty Gore.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said that it time for the government to listen to the American people and make sure Roe V. Wade is secure during a Wednesday October 13 appearance on The View. Joy Behar asked what Democrats can do to help protect reproductive rights, amid Texas’ abortion law, which virtually bans abortions after six weeks. Warren noted how many Americans support a women’s right to abortion.

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Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Jessica Biel in Hulu’s original limited event series Candy based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax.

Megan Thee Stallion protested Texas’ new abortion law during her set at the Austin City Limits festival this weekend.The new legislation, Senate Bill 8, bans most abortions in Texas and makes the state the most restrictive in the United States in terms of access to abortion services.The restrictive laws prohibit abortions to take place once cardiac activity can be detected in the foetus. This timeframe is typically around six weeks, before most people know they are pregnant.

wrote in his decision that since the law went into effect last month, “women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution.”Acknowledging that a higher court may rule differently, Pitman added that in the meantime, “this Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right.”The Texas law bans abortion at just 6 weeks, a direct violation of constitutional precedent established by Roe

Ellise Shafer administratorA federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend the state’s new law banning most abortions, according to the Associated Press.On Wednesday, Judge Robert Pitman of Austin, Texas explained why he believes the law is an “offensive deprivation” of constitutional rights in a 113-page opinion.“From the moment S.B.

A federal judge has ordered Texas to stop enforcement of the state’s recently implemented abortion statute, the most restrictive in the country, calling it a “scheme” to get around court precedent.

Billie Eilish was a headliner at Austin City Limits on Saturday, and during the pop star's set at the Texas festival, she spoke out against new abortion laws recently enacted in the state. The new laws prohibit abortions after six weeks with no exceptions for rape and incest and allows private citizens to sue abortion providers in federal court for $10,000.

Billie Eilish is a headliner. As one of the biggest music artists in the world, when she speaks, she is heard.

restrictive legislation that took effect last month.Performing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, the 19-year-old “Bad Guy” singer called the legislation — which went into effect Sept. 1 and bans most abortions — a “s–t” law and raised her middle finger before declaring, “My body, my f–king choice,” Eilish can be seen telling the cheering audience in a clip posted to Twitter on Saturday.“When they made that s–t a law, I almost didn’t want to do the show.

Billie Eilish, 19, let the audience at the Austin City Limits music festival know exactly what she thought of Texas’ new abortion law, which keeps women from getting one after six weeks. The “bad guy” vocalist was headlining the festival on Saturday October 2. She spoke out against the law in front of a backdrop, protesting it with signs with phrases like “Bans off our bodies” projected” behind her.

Billie Eilish is slamming Texas, while performing in Texas.

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South By Southwest, the Austin-based film, tech, music and arts festival, released a statement Thursday saying it was “appalled” by Texas’ recent passage of two restrictive abortion bills as well as the state’s new voting law, but that it was “committed to staying and fighting alongside the people who have made us who we are.”

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@GovAbbott‘s heinous bills,” Lakshmi wrote on her Twitter page on Wednesday. “Our show highlights the small businesses that hire the very same women, BIPOC ppl & low-income folks that these laws harm most.”Texans are up against so much right now- a hateful anti-abortion bill, erasure of voting rights, and a humanitarian & Constitutional crisis at the border.Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the U.S.

Uma Thurman has come out against Texas’ anti-abortion law in a powerful and personal op-ed.