Walmart has announced that it will broaden its abortion coverage and travel benefits for abortion services. Walmart is the nation's largest private employer with about 1.6 million U.S. employees. It is headquartered in Arkansas, where strict abortion limits have taken effect recently.
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Help for Abortion, Infertility and Adoption
Walmart's health plans will cover abortion when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability. Employees and their family members who are insured through Walmart also will have their travel costs covered, if they cannot access a legal abortion within 100 miles of their location. The retailer is launching a center for fertility services, such as in vitro fertilization, and increasing its financial support for adoptions from $5,000 to $20,000.
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Expansion of Benefit
Previously, Walmart's health plan covered abortion only in cases when the health of the mother would be in danger if the fetus were carried to term, the fetus could not survive the birthing process or death would be imminent after birth. The revised policy includes the travel benefit. Other companies, including Meta, American Express and Bank of America, have said they will cover travel costs for their employees who seek abortions in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's court ruling that overturned Roe v....
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