Breitbart reports: Employees of these woke companies who live in red states will still be able to obtain abortions should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Since conservative-leaning states began flexing their legislative muscles to outlaw abortion within their borders or severely limit its practice, companies from the likes of Amazon to Yelp have been drafting policies that will pay for employees’ abortions should they live in a state that outlaws the practice. After Politico published the leaked Supreme Court decision indicating that Roe v. Wade may be in its final days, more and more companies have been actively considering implementing such a practice, with none other than Amazon joining the fold this week.
CNN reported on Wednesday.
Amazon became the latest corporation to cover employees’ travel costs to seek abortion care. The company told staff it would pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for medical treatments including abortions, according to a message seen by Reuters. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the nature of the Reuters report to CNN Business.
Amazon joined Citigroup, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Bumble, Match Group, and Salesforce to draft such a policy. On Tuesday, Levi Strauss & Co. reminded its employees that its current benefits program will grant reimbursements “for healthcare-related travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including those related to reproductive health care and abortion.” The company said:
Access to reproductive health care, including abortion, has been a critical factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the past 50 years. Further restricting or criminalizing access will jeopardize that progress and disproportionately affect women of color, putting their well-being at risk and impeding diverse hiring pipelines.
Women in some states would have fewer rights than women in others, and our country would be consigned to a more unjust and inequitable future. What’s more, companies would need different health policies for different locations – including coverage for time off and travel across state lines – to ensure employees can access reproductive health care.
Likewise, Match Group CEO Shar Dubey said in a statement that she “personally, as a woman in Texas, could not keep silent” when the company announced its abortion tourism policy this past September in response to the Texas law that banned abortion in most cases.
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They bank on untidy lives.
No million dollar gals. Just trash.
No need for abortions anymore. Adrenochrome users were taken care of already
I don’t know why this article feels the need to bash all these “woke” companies. While we’re glad that hopefully Roe v Wade is being overturned, we aren’t fanatics about it, are we?
We recognize, for example, that in virtually all frum areas in the country (NY, NJ, CA, MI, IL, etc.) abortion will be available on steroids after the SCOTUS decision, with invitations to seekers of the procedure from Texas, Mississippi, etc. But we’re not getting bent out of shape about that. We understand that the culture of America for the past 50 years has “accepted” abortion as a woman’s right, and that’s not going away anytime soon.
So if many liberal-minded companies whose employee base’s average age is under 50 (ie they never knew an America without abortion) feel the need to cater to their employees’ desires, what do we want from them? Let’s live and let live, and let’s be glad that Hashem has allowed some good to happen due to Trump’s presidency and his SCOTUS appointees.
If HKB”H calls something toaiva, we can’t just say live and let live. HKB”H wasn’t kidding when he wrote the Torah Hakadosha. It wasn’t an opinion piece. It was a command.
You missed my point, and your comment makes no sense. Abortion is not called Toeiva.
To my point. Of course we want all elective abortion to cease, but our task as frum Jews in America is not to run the government, it is to try to do the Dvar Hashem in whatever circumstances we find ourselves. We “live and let live” by doing for ourselves by ourselves while ignoring things beyond our control, like people who choose to do all kinds of sins. For example, I’m sure you would not recommend that frum Jews in Texas run around suing doctors who perform abortions after a detected heartbeat (as the new State Abortion law provides), would you? You would advise us to mind our own business, and go sit and learn in the Beis medrash if we have all that free time. And study and obey the commandments (not “opinions”) He gave us.