Jillaine St. Michel

Businesses thrive by attracting top talent, but in states with abortion restrictions, the pool may shrink.

By Nancy Northup
April 7, 2025

When states ban abortion, they aren’t just harming women and families — they’re harming their economy. Recent studies, including one analyzing United States Postal Service change of address data, show that bans are driving thousands of highly skilled workers — especially women and young professionals planning to have children — to relocate. Workers won’t sacrifice their health or their futures for a paycheck, and businesses are feeling the impact. As talent moves to less-restrictive states, companies may struggle to compete, and the ripple effects could hit tax bases, housing markets, and broader economies.

Businesses thrive by attracting top talent, but in states with abortion restrictions, the pool may shrink, innovation may be limited, and recruiting top-tier employees is increasingly difficult. To remain competitive, companies must show employees they have their back. Here’s why:

Continued: https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/abortion-bans-employment/

She wanted a baby — but her fetus had no chance of survival. How Idaho's abortion laws led to devastating trauma

By NICOLE KARLIS
JUNE 12, 2024

Rebecca Vincen-Brown was still in her first trimester of pregnancy, in the late fall of 2022, when things started to go wrong. She had blood drawn for a standard genetic test called noninvasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, which can detect increased risks for various chromosomal disorders. The results of the test took slightly longer than normal to come back, and when they did, Vincen-Brown received a troubling phone call: The test was “inconclusive” because not enough fetal DNA was detected in her blood.

NIPT cannot diagnose fetal disorders conclusively, but the possibilities were troubling: Her fetus might have triploidy, trisomy 13 or trisomy 18, rare and serious genetic conditions involving either an extra set of chromosomes or an extra copy of one chromosome. While the specifics vary, most infants born with these conditions will live only days or weeks, and almost none will survive to adulthood.

Continued: https://www.salon.com/2024/06/12/when-abortion-travel-becomes-a-nightmare-a-tale-of-no-good-choices/

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