Bumble has roots in the state of Texas.
It is not a coincidence that the feminist-oriented dating app is based in Austin, Texas. Austin, Texas is a city known for feminist, careerist, and SJW type women.
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd attended and graduated from Southern Methodist University in the Dallas area. She was an early Tinder employee before parting ways with the organization to start Bumble. Around that time is when she moved to Austin.
Bumble's corporate culture has been progressive and feminist. It's not surprising that the company would attract employees would who share those values and strongly oppose Texas Senate Bill 8 (the Heartbeat Act).
Austinites tend to have ideological patterns that are commonly found in the Northeast, Chicago, and large West Coast cities. Those ideologies are not indicative of Texans as a whole.
The Heartbeat Act has not drastically changed the sexual marketplace in Texas. Plenty of women in Texas use a birth control method by their own choice. Many Texas women have sex with men who use condoms, which supplements their own birth control choices.
It is likely that the majority of the Bumble employees who objected to the Heartbeat Act were women using birth control who were not likely to conceive an unwanted child and not need abortion services themselves. These are mainly privileged women. Many of those women remained with the company while they relocated to another place. Some of those women have likely been laid off in recent times as Bumble has had some struggles.
Additionally, women in Texas who want abortions travel to New Mexico. For residents in areas like El Paso, Amarillo, and Lubbock, this is not inconvenient as those areas are near the Texas-New Mexico border.
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