In the wake of the fall of Roe V. Wade, the relative silence has been deafening. Our political and economic classes are preparing us to live in this new oppressive era
Everyone who is praising the corporations for their new abortion policy needs to take a step back and be more circumspect regarding the potential serious consequences of that policy. For example, it seems that women who request this “perk” are going to have tell someone who works in the company that they are pregnant. How is the Corporation going to protect and guarantee their privacy? Is the Company going to use a 3rd party?
Corporate and individual liability is especially concerning given the recent remarks of Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas and President Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation. Roberts tweeted the following in response to Dick’s Sporting Goods announcement:
“Kiss my business goodbye, @Dicks Moreover, I look forward, with @Heritage and others, to helping legislators and governors eliminate the tax breaks you get to build your stores. What’s so hard about just running your business and not wading into politics?”
For example, in Texas — which is one of 13 states to already pass a “trigger law” making most abortions illegal if Roe v. Wade got overturned — district attorneys in Austin, Dallas and Houston, among others, are saying they will not prosecute doctors for preforming abortions.
So we will be pursuing the civil side of this,” he added. “The legislature is going to have to decide what they’re going to do with district attorneys as it relates to this issue and really almost every other issue, because the local DA is now becoming a law unto themselves in Texas making their decisions.”
Dick’s Sporting Goods, for example, said they’ll pay $4,000 for someone who’s covered by their insurance to travel along with a spouse or friend or anybody else to help them.
To that, Paxton said he’s unsure and he will have to do more studying but that ultimately it’s something they will also pursue.
“It’s actually a new concept for us — these corporations deciding to pay for people to go get their abortions. So we’re going to be looking at whether the language covers at least the civil side and that’s obviously what we can deal with. And so, these penalties could even be for corporations. Over $100,000 per violation. So we’ll say we’re looking at that literally as we speak,” he said.
In terms of having an exact game plan on how to go forward, Paxton said his office will have to play it by ear.
Look, I don’t think anyone knows yet, it’s a new opinion. There’s over 200 pages. So certainly over the next coming days and weeks, we’re going to be looking at what we think all of that means and how that affects the state of Texas and how it’ll affect the country in general,” he said. (End)
Paxton basically said that the Republican lead Texas State Legislature will pass a civil or possibly a criminal law which will make it illegal for a company to pay for an employee’s abortion. Under this law, can a company or company’s personnel be charged with aiding and abetting an abortion which is now considered murder in Texas? Since Texas, now, today, defines abortion as murder will this potential future law be made retroactive?
If Texas prosecutors choose to go after a company for aiding and abetting will they be allowed to subpoena the company’s records which will reveal the identity of the women who left the state to get an abortion? Right now, women who are receiving money from their employer for travel expenses and an abortion might be in serious jeopardy of having their identity revealed in the very near future. What legal consequences will she face if her identity is revealed to the Texas Taliban?
Today, this is potentially an ominous and dangerous situation for women and for those that help her. Corporations should only be paying for an employee’s abortion if they have a bulletproof plan and can 100% guarantee the employee that her identity will be protected. If a company cannot do this then they need to make it clear to her in no uncertain terms the potential for future legal risk.
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Everyone who is praising the corporations for their new abortion policy needs to take a step back and be more circumspect regarding the potential serious consequences of that policy. For example, it seems that women who request this “perk” are going to have tell someone who works in the company that they are pregnant. How is the Corporation going to protect and guarantee their privacy? Is the Company going to use a 3rd party?
Corporate and individual liability is especially concerning given the recent remarks of Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas and President Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation. Roberts tweeted the following in response to Dick’s Sporting Goods announcement:
“Kiss my business goodbye, @Dicks Moreover, I look forward, with @Heritage and others, to helping legislators and governors eliminate the tax breaks you get to build your stores. What’s so hard about just running your business and not wading into politics?”
Paxton said the following in a recent interview:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/on-balance-with-leland-vittert/texas-ag-vows-to-enforce-abortion-laws-with-roe-overturned/
For example, in Texas — which is one of 13 states to already pass a “trigger law” making most abortions illegal if Roe v. Wade got overturned — district attorneys in Austin, Dallas and Houston, among others, are saying they will not prosecute doctors for preforming abortions.
So we will be pursuing the civil side of this,” he added. “The legislature is going to have to decide what they’re going to do with district attorneys as it relates to this issue and really almost every other issue, because the local DA is now becoming a law unto themselves in Texas making their decisions.”
Dick’s Sporting Goods, for example, said they’ll pay $4,000 for someone who’s covered by their insurance to travel along with a spouse or friend or anybody else to help them.
To that, Paxton said he’s unsure and he will have to do more studying but that ultimately it’s something they will also pursue.
“It’s actually a new concept for us — these corporations deciding to pay for people to go get their abortions. So we’re going to be looking at whether the language covers at least the civil side and that’s obviously what we can deal with. And so, these penalties could even be for corporations. Over $100,000 per violation. So we’ll say we’re looking at that literally as we speak,” he said.
In terms of having an exact game plan on how to go forward, Paxton said his office will have to play it by ear.
Look, I don’t think anyone knows yet, it’s a new opinion. There’s over 200 pages. So certainly over the next coming days and weeks, we’re going to be looking at what we think all of that means and how that affects the state of Texas and how it’ll affect the country in general,” he said. (End)
Paxton basically said that the Republican lead Texas State Legislature will pass a civil or possibly a criminal law which will make it illegal for a company to pay for an employee’s abortion. Under this law, can a company or company’s personnel be charged with aiding and abetting an abortion which is now considered murder in Texas? Since Texas, now, today, defines abortion as murder will this potential future law be made retroactive?
If Texas prosecutors choose to go after a company for aiding and abetting will they be allowed to subpoena the company’s records which will reveal the identity of the women who left the state to get an abortion? Right now, women who are receiving money from their employer for travel expenses and an abortion might be in serious jeopardy of having their identity revealed in the very near future. What legal consequences will she face if her identity is revealed to the Texas Taliban?
Today, this is potentially an ominous and dangerous situation for women and for those that help her. Corporations should only be paying for an employee’s abortion if they have a bulletproof plan and can 100% guarantee the employee that her identity will be protected. If a company cannot do this then they need to make it clear to her in no uncertain terms the potential for future legal risk.