Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians, involved in their healthcare decisions.

  • dumples
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    184 months ago

    It feels like this might be the only thing that gets movements from Republicans. They seem to only care and businesses

    • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      144 months ago

      We’ll see how companies like Caterpillar feel about moving to Texas in a couple years when the Texas Legislature starts trying to bring back segregation.