(TNS) — Large North Carolina-based employers have joined a growing list of companies nationwide supporting their employees who need to travel long distances for abortions.
Red Hat, the Raleigh-based technology corporation, and Bank of America, the Charlotte-based international investment bank, both told The N&O that they will reimburse travel for abortions and other types of reproductive care.
But are employees able to receive their company’s abortion benefits without sharing with their employer that they got an abortion?
The News & Observer spoke with legal, policy and insurance experts to learn more about the risks employees may face when taking advantage of company assistance to receive abortion care.
Simply, no. An employee may not need to share information about their procedure directly, but there could be other ways that employers learn about it.
This doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t take advantage of this company benefit, experts say, but people should know how their information may be moving around.
“It’s very legitimate in our society for people to be concerned about others, especially their employers, knowing they got an abortion,” said Alina Salganicoff, director of women’s health policy and senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “Abortion has been highly stigmatized.”
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