Editor’s note: The following is commentary from Megan McNally, a business attorney and founder of the FBomb Breakfast Club, a peer support community for women founders and business owners.

Abortion is healthcare.

When the Supreme Court released its opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Friday, the tech community was quick to praise Microsoft, Meta, and other industry leaders for pledging to cover healthcare and travel costs for employees no longer able to access healthcare safely where they live.

But this benefit, like so many corporate actions in the days and weeks after George Floyd’s murder, is a cheap, disingenuous ploy. And deploying these benefits could be dangerous for employees.

Let’s start with the cheap ploy.

What were these tech giants doing when the Senate refused to hold confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee of a sitting President in 2016?

How about when three ultra-conservative nominees were plucked directly from Leonard Leo’s list to re-shape the Court, even while out of step with the majority of Americans, 62% of whom say they are moderate or liberal in their ideology?

What were they doing between May 2, when the draft Dobbs opinion was leaked, and now?

They were funding all of it. That’s what tech companies were doing.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s PACs were among those funding politicians who scored zero on the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional scorecard.

Amazon, Facebook, and T-Mobile were among those funding the...

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