International law firm Sidley may have joined with Tesla, Citibank, Bumble, and other companies in promising to pay for employees’ abortion costs, receiving threatening letters from Texas politicians as a result.
Several Texas Republicans sent Sidley a letter on Thursday warning the company that paying for their employees’ abortion costs could expose them to criminal penalties.
“It has come to our attention that Sidley Austin has decided to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” the Texas Freedom Caucus wrote to Sidley’s Dallas branch office.
“It also appears that Sidley has been complicit in illegal abortions that were performed in Texas before and after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392. We are writing to inform you of the consequences that you and your colleagues will face for these actions.”
The Texas Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative members of the Texas House, observes in the letter that Texas never repealed the abortion ban once deemed unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade. Once Roe was overturned, the old statutes regained effect, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
These statutes make it a crime to attempt, perform, or furnish the means to procure an elective abortion.
Additionally, a state law passed last year that bans the abortion of unborn children with a detectable heartbeat also forbids paying for such abortions.
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