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A congressional candidate running as a \u201c100% pro-life\u201d conservative with a \u201ctitanium backbone\u201d once said a Georgia law banning abortion after an unborn baby\u2019s heartbeat could be detected was \u201ccounter\u201d to the majority of society and passed to satisfy the far right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Former Hollywood executive Ryan Millsap, who\u2019s running for Congress in Georgia\u2019s 10th Congressional district, says he is fully pro-life. But years ago he said<\/span> that the state\u2019s heartbeat law was bad for business and urged lawmakers to reconsider pro-life protections, according to multiple interviews unearthed by The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Millsap said Georgia\u2019s heartbeat law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May 2019, was out of step with the western world in an interview with Deadline. He was CEO of the production company Blackhall Studios at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was a scary time for those of us in the entertainment industry because a law like that would certainly put Georgia in a very awkward position relative to the modern English-speaking world,\u201d Millsap <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> in June 2020. \u201cIt is a huge disadvantage if you live in a state that has laws on its books that are counter to the majority of society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the same interview, Millsap said that the law was only passed because Kemp was bowing to the far right.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe governor\u2019s farthest-right support base wanted it and the governor\u2019s farthest right support base asked him for it and \u2026 played a key role in getting him elected,\u201d he said. \u201cThat put him in a very complicated position. \u2026 I believe the political winds required a bill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n After the bill was first passed by the legislature, Millsap said that boycotts from film studios targeting the state were economically, not politically driven. He said Hollywood was not \u201ctrying to impose its values\u201d on the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe production companies don\u2019t care, necessarily, about the moral consequences, one way or the other, of a law. They care about their supply chain and business. And when we pass laws that disrupt their supply chain, it makes us less competitive to London or Canada,\u201d he <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> in October 2019. \u201cI think that the biggest worry is just whether or not Georgian politicians understand the value of the entertainment industry, understand that it\u2019s a non-political set.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Millsap also suggested that an injunction blocking the law after it went into effect allowed \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d to move forward, but that the state had \u201csome ground to make up\u201d politically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The heartbeat law went into full effect in October 2024 when the state Supreme Court ruled in its favor. At least 12 Republican-led states have enacted heartbeat or total bans on abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRyan Millsap is a husband and father who believes in the miracle of life, has always been 100% pro-life and supports the state\u2019s law now that the issue has been settled,\u201d his campaign told The Daily Wire. \u201cHe believes that the Dobbs<\/em> decision was correctly decided and that states should address this issue and that no federal funds should be used for abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Millsap, who launched his campaign last month, is running as a political outsider and is campaigning on deporting illegal immigrants, banning congressional stock trading, and supporting cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m running to smash the status quo and fight back against the radical Left and the RINOs. I bought into their lies, too. But COVID and Antifa made me realize they sold us out,\u201d he said in his campaign launch ad.<\/span><\/p>\n He told<\/a> the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was running \u201cbecause we need someone with a titanium backbone who doesn\u2019t care about climbing the political ladder but is running to defeat the radical left once and for all and end the reign of radical lunatic liberals and impotent RINOs in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n The other two candidates running for the district are plumber Jeff Baker and state Rep. Houston Gaines. The Daily Wire reached out to both to ask for their position on abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n