Roe v. Wade overturned — Google responds in a letter to employees

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Roe v. Wade overturned — Google responds in a letter to employees By Derrek Lee ​

Google offers its support to employees following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

(Image credit: Derrek Lee / Android Central)

What you need to know​

• The U.S. supreme court issued a ruling that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.
• The ruling removes the federal right for women to have an abortion and hands that decision to the states.
• Google says that it will support employee relocations "without justification."

On Friday, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. While the decision does not make the procedure illegal on a national level, it leaves it up to the states to implement their own laws, many of which have banned the practice.
In response to the ruling, Google has issued a letter to its employees, urging employees to be respectful and mindful of one another. The letter, which was obtained by The Verge, also states that employees are allowed to relocate "without justification" while encouraging them to seek additional support if necessary.

Roe v. Wade overturned — Google responds in a letter to employees

Google offers its support to employees following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

www.androidcentral.com

What's Google's motive here? Abundance of care for its employees?
Or might it be more sinister? If Google assists with obtaining abortion, will Google more than recover those costs during the employee's career?

 

[Rampage]

"What's Google's motive here? Abundance of care for its employees?" titan

It's a tight labor market titan. Help Wanted signs are commonplace in the U.S. Filling job vacancies won't help if employers are losing employees already on the payroll.
"The nation’s largest companies are pledging to cover employees’ travel expenses to access abortion services, deciding an additional benefit for workers in a tight labor market outweighs the threat of legal action from states that have criminalized abortion.

“Everyone’s scrambling to have the employees they need, and so employers are asking themselves: Could I stand the possibility of a lawsuit against the certainty that some employees may just not stay with me if I don’t support this? It’s not an easy call to make, but I could imagine a lot of people ending in that place,” said Sandra Sucher, a professor of management at Harvard Business School."
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobb...think-paying-for-abortion-travel-is-worth-it/

Traditionally between Democrats and Republicans, it's Republicans that were regarded as business friendly.
And traditionally, the party that controls the white house tends to lose seats in the house in mid-term elections.
Will the 2022 mid-terms be an exception? Current polling indicates the overturning of the Roe v. Wade precedent has pleased Republicans, but it has energized Democrats. The question is whether the Democrat energy to protest in June will translate into the persistence to vote in November.

It would be ironic if as a result of this supreme court ruling, it not only turns mid-term voters away from Republican candidates, but also turns employers / big business away from Republicans for driving up the cost of healthcare.

 

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Texas Official Who Voted to Police Highway Travel for Abortion Does a 180 by Kylie Cheung​

Thu, September 14, 2023 at 5:15 PM EDT

In July, Texas’ Mitchell County passed a measure to make it illegal for someone seeking abortion to travel on a road running through the county. This week, one of the four county commissioners who unanimously voted to adopt the policy called it “unenforceable” to Rolling Stone.
The ordinance, crafted by the architects of Texas’ SB8 law (the abortion ban that allows people to sue anyone who helped someone get an abortion for at least $10,000), uses SB8’s same enforcement policy via private lawsuits. It makes it illegal to “knowingly transport any individual for the purpose of providing or obtaining an elective abortion” if one’s travel to an abortion clinic “begins, ends, or passes through” the county, framing this as “abortion trafficking.”

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-official-voted-police-highway-211500645.html

"Unenforceable". Indeed. Who thought otherwise?

 

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And, as usual in cases like this, the only people who will be hurt are poor people. The wealthy can always go on a "shopping trip" to New York, or "visit family and friends" in Canada, or ...

And then there are the back alley providers .... As the saying goes, you can't ban abortion - all you can do is ban safe abortions.

 

[sear]

S2 #4

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread. Anatole France (1844–1924), French author

Mark 14:7
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But ...

It's stupendous how self-defeating Republican authoritarian policy is.
The anti-vaxers help kill off like-minded Republican voters.
Wealthy, privileged women can have all the abortions they like. The poor & underprivileged forced by greedy Republicans to bring their pregnancies to term will produce more Democrats.
Co-authors Dubner & Levitt made this quite clear in Freakonomics.

- all you can do is ban safe abortions.

You don't need a parachute for skydiving unless you wish to try it more than once.

 

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If you want a stock tip you might want to consider investing in coat hanger manufacturers

 

[Shiftless2]

Don't want to start a new thread but everyone should be worried ....

Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill​

Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.
BY TESSA STUART

THE SUPREME COURT announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions on the most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, cutting off access to the medication across the country. That didn’t happen. The Supreme Court said it would only consider a more narrow set of questions about regulatory changes that have made the abortion pill more accessible in recent years. It could significantly limit access to mifepristone, but won’t end it altogether.

But it may not matter how the high court rules if Republicans win the presidency next November. That’s because GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.

Those plans — and many more, including proposals to attack contraception access, use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase “abortion surveillance” and data collection, rescind a Department of Defense policy to .....

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And don't forget that it took a Supreme Court ruling to legalize birth control pills in the entire country (even for married couples)

 

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"If you want a stock tip you might want to consider investing in coat hanger manufacturers" S2 #6

A suitable investment, if it $Paisley well?
Got an equally fashionable tip for investors not in the closet?

#7
I've done this rant before.
I have little patience for hypocrisy. Republicans love to talk about smaller government. But as soon as they find what they perceive to be a social ill, whether it be abortion, same sex marriage, or Mifepristone Republicans want big, authoritarian government to impose their will on their entire nation.
So perhaps this pseudo-con ruse has been a distraction for decades.

 

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Ohio grand jury decides against indicting woman who suffered miscarriage​

Ohio grand jury decides against indicting woman who suffered miscarriage - UPI.com

An Ohio grand jury has decided against indicting a Black woman who suffered a miscarriage with felony abuse of a corpse.

www.upi.com

 

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‘PEOPLE WILL DIE’

The Supreme Court Will Decide if States Can Force Hospitals to Let Women Die​

Here are the types of patients who will die if Supreme Court justices say states can block doctors from providing emergency abortion care
BY TESSA STUART

The Supreme Court will decide this term whether states can force doctors to turn away patients suffering serious, life-threatening medical complications, or if doctors will be allowed to provide standard medical care to those patients: abortions. The court announced last week it will hear arguments over the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, in April.

EMTALA is a more than three-decade-old federal law that says hospitals that accept Medicare (most hospitals in this country) cannot turn away anyone with an emergency medical condition; they are required to provide stabilizing treatment to prevent that person from suffering serious medical complications. After Roe v. Wade was overruled in 2022, the Biden administration issued guidance clarifying that if a pregnant patient arrives at a hospital with an emergency condition that could only be stabilized with an abortion, the hospital is required to provide that care — regardless of state law.

To the Supreme Court, Idaho has argued that states — not doctors, and not the federal government — should be permitted to decide what kind of emergency medical care women can receive. “The federal government cannot use EMTALA to override in the emergency room state laws about abortion any more than it can use it to override state law on organ transplants or marijuana use,” the state’s attorney general wrote in its petition to the high court.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice sued the state of Idaho last year over the criminal abortion ban passed by the GOP-controlled legislature, which only allows for abortions to prevent a patient’s death — language one Idaho doctor said “is not useful to medical providers because this is not ....

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[sear]

This news is so grim, not sure there's any better reaction than satire -

"Ohio grand jury decides against indicting woman who suffered miscarriage" #9​

Is there no end to the font of compassion that is the Ohio jury pool? [swoon]

‘PEOPLE WILL DIE’

"The Supreme Court Will Decide if States Can Force Hospitals to Let Women Die" #10​

Problems are related to people. The fewer the people, the fewer the problems. Inducting hospitals to this noble problem solving elimination cause may not end all problems for all time, BUT it's a step in the right direction ...

TRANSLATION:
The inmates are overtaking the asylum. Stay tuned.