The CEO of Dallas-based Match said she was “shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world.”
Texas-based Bumble and the CEO of the Match dating app company, along with Uber and Lyft, have announced they’re helping women to battle the state’s draconian new anti-abortion law.
Shar Dubey, CEO of the Match Group with some 400 employees in Dallas, said in a note to staff Thursday night that she was “shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world.”
She added: “I’m not speaking about this as the CEO of a company. I’m speaking about this personally, as a mother and a woman who has fervently cared about women’s rights, including the very fundamental right of choice over her body.”
The new Texas law makes it illegal for women to obtain abortions — even in the case of rape or incest — beyond six weeks after conception, which is before most people even know they’re pregnant.
It also sets up a bounty system rewarding vigilantes who report illegal abortions by allowing them to sue people like healthcare workers or drivers taking women to clinics for “aiding or abetting” the procedure for $10,000.
