Heartbeat Laws as Prophylaxis
15th May 2019
Scott Adams has brought up an interesting situation, although not in the way that he may have meant to.
In the linked Periscope session, during a discussion of the ‘heartbeat bills’ that some states are using to establish constraints on abortion, he expressed the opinion that states that enact such laws will suffer economically, because (for example) large tech companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., will not choose such states for new facilities because of the existence of such laws.
I think his assessment is correct, as far as it goes.
But think about that. One common complaint among Right-Thinking People is that refugees from high-tax Blue states are moving into low-tax Red states because they want to keep more of their hard-earned money. Unfortunately, such people bring their Social Justice Warrior attitudes with them, and the destination states run the risk of turning into high-tax Politically Correct more-toward-Blue states as a result.
‘Heartbeat’ laws could prove a barrier to such movement. And that, I suggest, is a feature, not a bug. I’d gladly give up the extra economic activity that such population ingress might bring with it in order to avoid the prospect of turning into a junior-grade California. I suspect a lot of Red state people would agree.
So there it is.
May 16th, 2019 at 09:15
Good point.