A congressional candidate running as a “100% pro-life” conservative with a “titanium backbone” once said a Georgia law banning abortion after an unborn baby’s heartbeat could be detected was “counter” to the majority of society and passed to satisfy the far right.  Former Hollywood executive Ryan Millsap, who’s running for Congress in Georgia’s 10th Congressional district, says he is fully pro-life. But years ago he said that the state’s heartbeat law was bad for business and urged lawmakers to reconsider pro-life protections, according to multiple interviews unearthed by The Daily Wire.  Millsap said Georgia’s 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.  “It 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,” Millsap said in June 2020. “It is a huge disadvantage if you live in a state that has laws on its books that are counter to the majority of society.” In the same interview, Millsap said that the law was only passed because Kemp was bowing to the far right. “The governor’s farthest-right support base wanted it and the governor’s farthest right support base asked him for it and … played a key role in getting him elected,” he said. “That put him in a very complicated position. … I believe the political winds required a bill.” 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 “trying to impose its values” on the state.  “The production companies don’t 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,” he said in October 2019. “I think that the biggest worry is just whether or not Georgian politicians understand the value of the entertainment industry, understand that it’s a non-political set.”  Millsap also suggested that an injunction blocking the law after it went into effect allowed “business as usual” to move forward, but that the state had “some ground to make up” politically.  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.  “Ryan Millsap is a husband and father who believes in the miracle of life, has always been 100% pro-life and supports the state’s law now that the issue has been settled,” his campaign told The Daily Wire. “He believes that the Dobbs decision was correctly decided and that states should address this issue and that no federal funds should be used for abortion.” 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.  “I’m 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,” he said in his campaign launch ad. He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was running “because we need someone with a titanium backbone who doesn’t 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.” 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.  Gaines voted for the heartbeat bill during his time in the legislature shortly after he flipped a state House seat back Republican.  “As a Christian and a conservative, I’m proud to be pro-life and will always stand up for what’s right. When Democrats tried to threaten me, I stood strong and passed Georgia’s Heartbeat Bill,” Gaines told The Daily Wire. “While my opponent joined Hollywood to fight Georgia’s Heartbeat Bill with everything he had, we got it done. Georgia stands for life.” Baker said he is “100% pro-life with exception to health of mother. Abortion in any other respect is murder and is against my Christian beliefs.” “I would support a Constitutional Amendment that states life begins at conception,” he added. Gaines has been endorsed by House GOP leaders like Reps. Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Tom Emmer. A debate for the GOP candidates is set for April 12.