The move comes a week after Amazon took a similar step, committing to reimburse U.S. employees up to $4,000 annually for travel and lodging for medical treatments.
Other companies including Yelp, Citigroup and Levi Strauss & Co. are acting in the wake of Politico’s publication last week of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Seattle startup Glowforge took action earlier in April.
After a draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court would abolish a nationwide right to an abortion was leaked last week, a handful of companies started issuing policies to help workers who could face health care restrictions in their state.
To date, 26 states “are certain or likely to ban abortion” if the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, according to pro-choice research group Guttmacher Institute.
According to Guttmacher’s analysis, “if Roe were overturned or fundamentally weakened, 22 states have laws or constitutional amendments already in place that would make them certain to attempt to ban abortion as quickly as possible.”
Airbnb told FOX Business that its “healthcare coverage supports reproductive rights and we will work to make sure our employees have the resources they need to make choices about their reproductive rights, as we committed to last fall.”
Tesla announced that the company expanded its Safety Net program and health insurance offerings last year to include “travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services that are unavailable in their home state.”
In a regulatory filing, Citigroup announced that it will “provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources” due to “changes in reproductive healthcare laws in certain states in the U.S.”
Yelp also announced an expansion of its health insurance coverage to support consistent access to care across its distributed workforce.
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