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You have to imagine after this insanity with the women in Texas with a medically necessary abortion* that companies have to be rethinking hiring there (and wome

• etchalon 3y ago
  Among people I know here in Austin, who are all largely in the middle class, it's wildly assumed you'd just travel out of state if needed. It's a weird situation. The people who should be moving are people for whom an out-of-state abortion is financially impossible, but obviously, if you can't afford two to three days off work, a hotel and a plane ticket, you probably can't afford to move either.
  • outside1234 3y ago
    But if you are in that situation, you can also probably just choose a better place to live where women have rights too.
  • consumer451 3y ago
    This sounds like a dystopia where there is one set of laws for the wealthy and another set of laws for the less wealthy. Yes, I know.. this is often the case in many countries, but when it comes to bodily autonomy[0], it sounds much worse to me. Does not sound like the land of free at all. [0] According to recent TX news, this includes a women's right to maintain fertility, and even her own life. What in the actual heck?
    • etchalon 3y ago
      "Sounds like" should just be replaced with "is". It is, objectively, a dystopia where laws apply only to one class of people.