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Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

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Re: Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

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When TX first passed its law that allowed anyone to sue individuals that had or aided an abortion, Apple offered to pay for transport and the procedure for anyone at its new Austin campus.

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Re: Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

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I wonder if this is a business decision that has shown it could be profitable. I can imagine people without kids work more hours. Then again, they have a lot less to lose.

Interesting business decision.

The question I have, some states are going to call abortion murder and charge it as such. Is Google aiding and abetting a homicide?

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> Pretty sure all the States that would qualify for this are lower cost of living than any of the destination ones too.

Sure says something about the uneducated “keep the baby” line that it’s the have-not states towing it.

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I wonder if this is a business decision that has shown it could be profitable. I can imagine people without kids work more hours. Then again, they have a lot less to lose. Interesting business decision. The question I have, some states are going to call abortion murder and charge it as such. Is Google aiding and abetting a homicide?

I assumed it was a decision relating to a woman's reproductive rights. To suggest it is a business decision is sort of debasing?

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> Pretty sure all the States that would qualify for this are lower cost of living than any of the destination ones too. Sure says something about the uneducated “keep the baby” line that it’s the have-not states towing it.

I'm sure it does say something, but implying have-nots are in their situation because of a lack of education is rather unenlightened. The number one predictor of salary, is the salary of the parents. I would rather put forward that those with subsistence lifestyles sacrifice proportionately less wealth to have many children. So it perhaps is rational to keep children in those cultures and develop morals that encourage this. In more wealthy societies the cost per child is quite high with advanced education, and a lower likelihood that each child provides free labor to the family, so keeping a child is less rational.

Re: Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

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I wonder if this is a business decision that has shown it could be profitable. I can imagine people without kids work more hours. Then again, they have a lot less to lose. Interesting business decision. The question I have, some states are going to call abortion murder and charge it as such. Is Google aiding and abetting a homicide?

Possibly. Now the fun will begin if when the Feds stake a claim via the Commerce Clause to make inter-state abortion travel a right. This could end run Roe's overturn because the Feds could say that a State not allowing abortions will affect the price of abortions much like the Feds said you can't hold back corn grown on your farm to feed your livestock because that would prevent the corn from going to market at a market set rate.
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