“This is an attack on women’s access to health care and their right to choose,” Lyft CEO Logan Green tweeted in response to a Texas law that bans most abortions and encourages citizens to turn one another in for cash rewards.
, said, “Drivers are never responsible for monitoring where their riders go or why. This law is incompatible with people’s basic rights to privacy, our community guidelines, the spirit of rideshare, and our values as a company.”, a group that opposes abortion rights, set up a website encouraging people to “enforce” the legislation by sending anonymous tips or information about alleged violations of the act. GoDaddy Inc.
Texas Right to Life spokeswoman Kimberlyn Schwartz said Friday that assets were in the process of being transferred to another provider and the group’s site would be restored Sunday or earlier. “We will not be silenced,” she wrote in an email. “If anti-Lifers want to take our website down, we’ll put it back up. We are not afraid of the mob. We will not back down.”
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