After Roe v. Wade was overturned, 1,500 showrunners, creators and directors in Hollywood banded together to figure out how they could do more when it came to advocating for reproductive rights. But when Showrunners for Abortion Rights decided to extend that care to the health and safety of their own crews, they were met with resistance, writer, producer and the advocacy group’s co-founder Nicole Jefferson Asher revealed at TheWrap’s 2024 Power Women Summit on Tuesday.
While commiserating about the lack of complex reproductive portrayals onscreen, the group started to wonder what would happen if one of their crew or cast members had an atopic pregnancy or was raped or needed hormones or experienced one of the hundreds of ailments that can impact women.