Virtuous American corporations are boycotting Georgia due to some more restrictive abortion laws (list from The Wrap; article on an Amazon Studios production being pulled).
Yet the same companies that refuse to make movies in Georgia (a welcome respite for Georgia taxpayers? How much cash must they shovel out to the world’s wealthiest corporations?) happily operate in European countries that restrict abortion. For example, Netflix has a big office in Spain in which abortion is restricted beyond the first trimester (Wikipedia). Amazon has a big operation in Ireland, whose abortion laws are condemned by Amnesty International (see below; Amazon also operates in Northern Ireland where abortion is even more restricted).
If abortion is the litmus test for movie studios, why do they continue to operate in California? This chart shows that California bans abortion after “viability” (about 21 weeks with modern technology) whereas Massachusetts allows abortion up to 24 weeks. Why not pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts? (save a ton of money on personal income tax; similar winner-take-all divorce/custody/child support system) Or drive just a few hours east to Nevada, which also allows abortion to 24 weeks, and skip out entirely on state income tax? (family law plaintiffs should sue before leaving California, though; Nevada caps child support at $13,000 per year for a single child and starts from a presumption of 50/50 shared parenting)
All around the world there are countries with restrictive abortion laws (map). Why is it only U.S. state laws that get these virtuous corporations to speak up and vote with their checkbooks?
(Separately, if the idea is to help adult women in Georgia who are seeking abortions, how does it help to reduce their employment opportunities? Wouldn’t a woman in Georgia who wants an abortion at 23 weeks be better off with a movie production job with a paycheck that will enable her to hop a flight to New York or Massachusetts or fill up a car with gasoline for the drive to Florida? (see above chart))
Related:
- “Amazon relocates operations to new Belfast Titanic Quarter site” (abortion is generally illegal in Northern Ireland (BBC), yet Amazon chooses to operate there despite the fact that it would be practical to do everything from the less restrictive Republic of Ireland and drive across the soft border as necessary)
- Georgia family law: with child support revenue capped at less than $30,000 per year for one child, it is bad state in which to profit from a casual sexual encounter with a movie star
That was a calculated joint move by Trump and Putin to hurt the US media, our truest patriots in residence, and to give the spotlight to the Russian (and Russia-sponsored) media. Just imagine all those white patriarchs in Georgia switch from CNN and MSNBC to FOX and RT America.
It’s really dumb. Vaguely liberal pro-choice people irritate me even more than pro-lifers. A lot of people who claim to be pro-choice don’t even seem to believe their own rhetoric. If you believe bodily autonomy rights entail that no person should be obligated to give up bodily resources to any other person for any reason, it doesn’t matter whether the woman in question is carrying a 9 day old embryo or a 9 month old fetus. A restriction on abortion in either case is equally wrong. I hate to say it but a lot of pro-choice people are too cowardly to fully embrace the consequences of their philosophical position. So they simultaneously hold the “My body, my choice” position while also saying that “late term abortions are wrong and should only be allowed in cases of fetal anomaly or life of the mother at risk.” i hear this all the time and it irritates me to no end.
Puzzling agendas at play here. Perfectly reasonable comment about abortion in the American cultural context censored here. Apparently this is not a place for free speech.
And if you believed your own rhetoric, then you would be in favor of men having a choice also.