Businesses used to stay out of social causes to avoid damaging their reputation, however, in Texas, some big names are coming out to speak out against the new and extreme anti-abortion law of the US entity.
This is Senate Bill 8 in Texas, which was named the “Heartbeat Bill,” which prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a period so short that even dozens of women have yet to discover who are pregnant, regardless of whether this was in a case of incest or rape.
That is why, in the near future, the citizens of Texas will be able to personally denounce and sue anyone who believes they are seeking an abortion or any ‘accomplice’ who helps them do so.
Despite how controversial this sounds, hehe Supreme Court of the United States ruled not to block the Texas law, so now business actors want to take steps to protect citizens from the new legislation.
GoDaddy vs anti-abortion sites
Specifically one called ‘Texas Right to Life’, a web page that was registered with GoDaddy and was intended for citizens to report other people seeking abortions. Gizmodo in a recent report.
Therefore, from your account Twitter, the company claimed that the group of people behind this site had violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and they had 24 hours to switch providers.
Match Group will help with expenses
The dating app company that owns Tinder and Hinge called the law “regressive.” Its executive director, Shar Dubey, assured from a internal memo that she is “shocked” by “living in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world.”
That is why Dubey noted that a fund is being created so that Match employees who may be affected by the new abortion law in Texas can seek medical care outside of the state.
“I’m not talking about this as the CEO of a company,” Dubey wrote. “I mean this personally, as a mother and a woman who has been fervently concerned for women’s rights, including the fundamental right to choose over her body.”
Bumble goes the same way
As well as Match Group, the also company of applications of dating, Bumble, indicated that it is creating an aid fund so that the women of Texas have access to abortions. Proceeds will go to organizations that support women’s reproductive rights.
Even the executive director, Whitney Wolfe Herd, asserted from her account Twitter that her $ 6.6 billion company was “founded by women and run by women” and that she would “continue to fight regressive laws like # SB8.”
Uber and Lyft team up
To cope with the new laws, Uber and Lyft have ‘teamed up’ under the same policy: They will pay legal fees for drivers who are sued.
This is because Texas’ own abortion law prohibits anyone from transporting a woman for an abortion after six weeks, which could undoubtedly cause problems for drivers of private transportation companies.
Lyft He assured that he created a Driver’s Legal Defense Fund with the aim of fully paying the fines that drivers could incur under the new law. He noted from his blog that “Drivers are never responsible for monitoring where their passengers are going or why. Imagine being a driver and not knowing if you are breaking the law by driving someone. Similarly, passengers never have to justify, or even share, where they are going and why. “
For his part, the CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, assured that he would join with the co-founder of Lyft, Logan Green, pointing out from Twitter that drivers should not take the risk of taking people where they want to go “, so the private transport company will also cover the legal fees of its drivers.