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Lyft, Uber will cover legal fees for drivers sued under Oklahoma abortion law
MSNBC ^ | April 30, 2022 | Jessica Bursztynsky

Posted on 05/03/2022 8:37:17 PM PDT by Morgana

Lyft and Uber said this week they will fully cover legal fees for their respective drivers who are sued under Oklahoma’s anticipated restrictive abortion law.

The Oklahoma House on Thursday passed the Texas-style ban that prohibits most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, a time period before many women have even discovered they’re pregnant. The so-called Oklahoma Heartbeat Act now goes to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is expected to sign it within days.

Like the Texas law, people aiding the procedure, including doctors, people paying for the procedure and clinic workers are at risk. That includes rideshare drivers who can be punished for transporting women to clinics to receive abortions, where they could be fined up to $10,000. Abortion rights activists and providers argue these laws effectively overturn protections set under Roe v. Wade in 1973.

“Women’s access to health care is under attack again, this time in Oklahoma,” Lyft CEO Logan Green said in a tweeted statement. “Lyft drivers are once again caught in the middle just for getting people where they need to go. We believe transportation shouldn’t be a barrier to accessing health care and it’s our duty to support both our rider and driver communities.”

Lyft and Uber first announced protections for drivers in Texas after its restrictive abortion law took effect in September. Now, the rideshare companies are extending that help to drivers in Oklahoma.

“Like in TX, we intend to cover all legal fees for any driver sued under this law while they’re driving,” an Uber spokesman told CNBC in an email.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: abortion; blackpopulationsurge; lyft; prolife; uber
The Oklahoma bill passed several hours ago.

So I wonder how many of these Uber/Lyft drivers would even know they are going for an abortion unless they are driving them directly to the clinic from across state lines? Think about it, if they are only taking them to the airport, bus terminal how would the driver know? Why would any woman gleefully say "I'm off to kill my baby" to an uber driver?

1 posted on 05/03/2022 8:37:17 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

It’s been my impression that most radical or progressive Dems tend to think most folks will see the world as they do; biases, dellusions, distortions and all.


2 posted on 05/03/2022 8:41:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

How one track minded can one get?


3 posted on 05/03/2022 8:48:30 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

I’ll be sure never to use Lyft or Uber drivers for anything


4 posted on 05/03/2022 9:07:37 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (GoFundMe is a Democrat Scam)
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To: Morgana
Now that we know that Roe is almost certainly going down, stop trying to pass limited abortion bans that fit within the framework of Roe. Just protect life!
5 posted on 05/03/2022 9:27:39 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Morgana
Lyft and Uber said this week they will fully cover legal fees for their respective drivers

Great!

For Lyft and Uber, that will get old fast. Couldn't happen to a nicer coupla companies.

6 posted on 05/03/2022 9:30:44 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Morgana
This is just virtue signaling nonsense. Uber and Lyft think they can score some points with their fellow libs.
7 posted on 05/03/2022 9:34:13 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: TBP

If you believe that it belongs in the states and that the states should decide then the states will do what their constituents want them to do. That doesn’t mean they will be zero abortions. It is a State issue.


8 posted on 05/03/2022 10:07:07 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy

Many believe that. But if you take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, which in identical language, ban taking “life, liberty, or property without due process of law,” then I think you arguably have a prohibition on abortion.

Science and logic are demonstrating that from the moment of conception, you have a human life. If the child is alive adn of the human species, I don’t see how you can argue that it’s not a person.

And if it’s a person, then go back to the first paragraph. The Fifth and Fourteenth would apply.


9 posted on 05/03/2022 10:10:28 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Morgana
In addition to saving the life of innocents banning abortion in your state has a great side effect: liberals won't want to move to your state anymore!
10 posted on 05/03/2022 10:18:41 PM PDT by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy Americans has ever had. 🍊)
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To: Morgana

“That includes rideshare drivers who can be punished for transporting women to clinics to receive abortions...”

Absolute BS. The person aiding the process of abortion is who is culpable, not a PAID rideshare driver who has no reasonable way of knowing what is about to go down.

This is pure, unadultered, cost-free virtue signaling


11 posted on 05/03/2022 10:25:54 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
I’ll be sure never to use Lyft or Uber drivers for anything

I never thought I'd say this, but I will seriously consider using a taxicab for the next rare trip out of town.

12 posted on 05/03/2022 10:27:16 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Call a cab. The rates are about the same if not less and the drivers are professionals.


13 posted on 05/03/2022 10:28:53 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: VeniVidiVici

We’ve got a company here called Yellow.


14 posted on 05/04/2022 3:21:34 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Morgana

people aiding the procedure, including:
doctors - right
people paying for the procedure - Yes
clinic workers - Yes

This is a poison pill for the law...
Punish rideshare drivers for transporting women to clinics. Someone’s going to sue against this provision and get the entire bill repealed.


15 posted on 05/04/2022 4:08:51 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Morgana

It will all be moot in a short time when Oklahoma outlaws abortion altogether when/if the Draft becomes the Opinion.


16 posted on 05/04/2022 4:12:55 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe oo)
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To: Morgana

The state should confiscate the driver’s car. Let Lyft and Uber buy’em a new car.


17 posted on 05/04/2022 4:30:59 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Morgana

The drivers would either have to be mind readers or a kind of police.


18 posted on 05/04/2022 5:03:26 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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