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For reference - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

Views on abortion have been mostly static since 1975 in the US population as a whole. ~30% “legal under any”, ~50% “legal only under certain”, ~20% “illegal in all”.

It’s interesting, but unsurprising, to see that publicly speaking in favor of a 70% popular opinion would lead to issues in tech related industries such as gaming. Due to various factors like education polarization, only speaking out in favor of the 30% “Legal under any circumstances” view would be seen as acceptable in the industry.

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How is it 70% popular opinion? He's speaking for the draconian ~20% Texas rule.

Hypothetical, but I doubt the response would have been any different if he endorsed a post-12 weeks ban.

Fair to point out that the Texas heartbeat law seems like it could have an effect similar to the 20% view (although it and the Supreme Court decision that the developer praised doesn’t apply to RU-486 abortions, which Texas is currently attempting to ban separately[1]. Therefore, even in Texas law, abortion remains legal under some circumstances for now.)

[1] https://19thnews.org/2021/09/texas-restrictions-abortion-ind...

Texas law forbids abortion even in case of rape/incest. However, per Gallup (your link) 77% of the people think it should be legal for rape/incest.

The criticism of this CEO that I’ve seen in various places did not focus on exclusion/inclusion of such criteria - check his twitter replies or the statements boycotting his company which have no such focus.

Currently under Texas law/lack of a stay by SCOTUS which was praised by the CEO, as I mentioned in the previous post, medication abortion via RU-486 would still be available for a woman in this circumstance, although Texas is working to ban it too - this was not discussed in the tweet at issue.

You’re absolutely right about the poll numbers generally being in favor of those 2 exceptions.

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