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Monday, October 12, 2026

How companies can preserve employee abortion access if Roe v. Wade is overturned - Business Insider

  • If Roe v. Wade is overturned, 13 states with so-called trigger laws will automatically ban abortion.
  • A recent survey suggests that working adults largely want to live in states where abortion is legal.
  • Companies operating in multiple states must decide whether and how they'll preserve abortion access.

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The Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer, allowing individual states to decide whether to make the procedure legal. Thirteen states — Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming — already have "trigger laws" that will automatically ban abortion if Roe is overturned.

However, a March survey by Morning Consult suggests that working adults largely want to live in states where abortion is legal. This could create a problem for companies that operate in states with trigger laws.

The survey also suggests that working adults are already taking state laws that govern social policies into consideration when they're contemplating relocating to another state for a job. Nearly all adults surveyed who'd accepted a professional opportunity in the past two years that required them to relocate said they...



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