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Abortions in North Carolina drop by 30% in wake of new restrictions, data shows

Source: Guardian

Carter Sherman
Wed 11 Oct 2023 05.01 BST

Abortions in North Carolina fell by more than 30% after the state enacted new abortion restrictions on 1 July, including a 12-week abortion ban, new data released on Wednesday by the Guttmacher Institute shows.

North Carolina abortion clinics performed more than 4,200 abortions in June, but just 2,920 abortions in July. Nearby states did not see a comparable surge in abortions, suggesting that patients denied abortions in North Carolina had to self-manage their own – or simply went without.

“Having to turn away patients over and over again is truly just soul-crushing,” said Calla Hales, who runs A Preferred Women’s Health Center, a network of clinics with two locations in North Carolina and two in Georgia, which has a six-week abortion ban.

“We’re having to try our best to help patients, but they’re going through incredible financial and logistical difficulties to get here. And then there’s the patients who just can’t make it, or have to be turned away because they’re just too far, or have some other condition that isn’t compatible with doing a non-hospital abortion. It weighs a person down.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/abortion-ban-north-carolina-decrease

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Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia

Source: Guardian

Pramod Acharya and Michael Hudson
Tue 10 Oct 2023 05.00 EDT

Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions

Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal’s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt. The 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world’s biggest companies: Amazon.

Instead of his dream job, he says, he found low pay and misery. Amazon managers berated him, he says, for being too slow as he hustled across a vast two-story warehouse, grabbing iPhones and other items ordered by customers across the Arabian peninsula.

Then in May 2022, he says, he and many of his Nepali co-workers were abruptly let go from their jobs at the Amazon warehouse. They were 2,400 miles from home with no wages and little food.

Mansur says he pleaded with the Saudi labor supply company that held their employment contracts and had placed them in what amounted to temporary positions at Amazon: if there was no more work, let them return to Nepal. The Saudi firm, he says, demanded he make a terrible choice. He could stay in a place that, for him, was “like a hell”. Or he could push his family back in Nepal deeper into destitution by paying a $1,300 exit fee, a penalty for leaving before his contract was done. “I told them: either kill us or send us home, but don’t give us so much pain,” he says.

Momtaj Mansur is one of dozens of current and former workers who claim they were tricked and exploited by recruiting agencies in Nepal and labor supply firms in Saudi Arabia and then suffered under harsh conditions at Amazon’s warehouses.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/10/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses

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Newsom signs first-in-the-nation corporate climate disclosure bills

Source: Politico

By JORDAN WOLMAN
10/07/2023 03:38 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills Saturday that would require large corporations operating in the state to disclose both their carbon footprints and their climate-related financial risks starting in 2026.

The laws faced heavy opposition from groups like the California Chamber of Commerce and the Western States Petroleum Association. Both authors amended their bills late in session to delay implementation and roll back corporate penalties for noncompliance. For SB 253 in particular, those amendments led companies like Google and Apple to support the bill and, ultimately, get enough Assembly Democrats on board to land it on Newsom’s desk.

Both bills failed in the Assembly last year.

Context: Taken together, the laws will change the landscape for corporate disclosure. For the first time in the U.S., large publicly traded and privately held corporations doing business in California will need to make public both their impact on the environment, including Scope 3 emissions or those generated through a company’s value chain, and how climate change is impacting their bottom line.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/07/newsom-california-climate-disclosure-00120474