Starbucks, Amazon, and other companies are making sure employees in states with restrictive laws or outright bans on abortion have access to safe health care.
Over the past few months, companies like Lyft, Bumble, and Salesforce have promised employees who live in states with bans on abortions access to reproductive health services.
And now, in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft that suggests the Court will revoke Roe v. Wade — the landmark court case that made access to a safe, legal abortion a constitutional right — more and more private companies in states like Texas and Oklahoma are stepping in where public service has failed.
Here are all of the corporations who have promised to help employees in the 31 states who already face an abortion ban or will face one in the future, along with the kind of benefits they’re offering, from starting relief funds to covering abortion-related travel expenses.
The second-largest private employer in the U.S. told employees it would pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses a year for non-life threatening medical treatments, including abortions, if legal care isn’t available within 100 miles of where they live.
The company made the announcement May 2, 2022, but also said the new benefit was effective to January 1, 2022, retroactively.
The reimbursement is only available to employees who are enrolled in the company’s Premera or Aetna health plans, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.
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