[Asparagirl]

Arkansas currently has a 100% total abortion ban. They do not even allow abortion at any week if you’re raped, if you’re a child who has been raped, or if you’re a victim of incest. No woman in her right mind would ever move there, and this CTO is female.

[dopylitty]

And don't forget states with those policies are losing OB/GYNs and other medical professionals rapidly[0] so even if you don't care about abortion your medical care or the medical care of the women you love is going to be shit (even by US standards) if you get stuck there.

Women are dying not only because they have pregnancies that should be terminated due to nonviability but also because doctors are afraid of treating them while they're pregnant[1].

Any company with a shred of care for their female employees and the families of their male employess should be leaving those states.

0: https://www.wired.com/story/states-with-abortion-bans-are-lo... 1: https://sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-higher-maternal-mortality...

[roughly]

To expand on this, just to push off the inevitable: it’s not just about abortions, it’s about women’s healthcare overall. It turns out there’s a whole shitload of grey areas, doctors aren’t willing to go to jail, and it puts women’s lives in danger to have this theocratic bullshit in place.

[shrubble]

CTO in the article appears to be beyond the age at which pregnancy is possible?

[desert_rue]

That’s like saying men shouldn’t vote on matters relating to abortion. People can vote you their feet.

[kjs3]

This will probably be a huge surprise for you, but some people care about other people.

[lambdasquirrel]

I did not get that impression from seeing a recent photograph from her, and this might be missing the point. Imagine that the law on the matter would be hostile towards a younger aspiring-professional image of her. Is Bentonville only going to be okay for women who've "made it" and lived past their child-bearing years?

[seized]

So? She certainly has one or more daughters, or neices, or is a god parent, or has friends with kids...

[IncreasePosts]

What a ridiculous take. 50+% of women in Alabama think abortion should be illegal in most cases. And Alabama was in the top 10 for percent inbound migration last year, meaning there are tens of thousands of women who made the choice to move to Alabama.

And you're saying all of them must be "not in their right mind".

[themadturk]

How many are moving there because their husbands are moving there and don't want divorces?

50%+ of them being in favor of restricting abortion means the rest don't like restricting abortion, but may not have the means to leave.

[threeseed]

That Pew Alabama poll you are likely referring to is absolutely ridiculous:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/databa...

There is a world of difference between (a) a 10 year old child being raped and needing an abortion, (b) woman who will die if she gives birth and (c) woman getting an abortion the day before the baby is due simply because she feels like it.

And yet the poll lumps all of those together. Such a complex issue needs far more nuance.

[blackhawkC17]

Some people are so stuck in their bubbles that they can’t imagine anything else.

[delichon]

The longest drive from within Arkansas to an out of state abortion clinic is about five hours. There is no place to live without compromises. I'm in a state with free choice and the nearest to me is a three hour drive. My distance to access is greater than 90% of the population of Arkansas. I can understand not wanting to live there due to that policy on principle but not on practicality.

[zippothrowaway]

And what if it's an emergency?

Some compromises are not worth making when it could kill you.

Note this law is actually working as designed - they want pro-choice people to leave their state so they can entrench their power there.

[almostgotcaught]

> The longest drive from within Arkansas to an out of state abortion clinic is about five hours.

Arkansas isn't so bad because I can drive 300 miles to a different state if I need medical care. Ok.

> There is no place to live without compromises.

Sure but calling an abortion ban a compromise is like calling a nuclear warhead a nonlethal weapon.