Meta, Uber, Starbucks... American companies agree to pay the travel expenses of their employees to have an abortion

It was a decision that left America, and neighboring continents, in shock.

On Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court revoked the "Roe vs. Wade" ruling, which since 1973 had guaranteed abortion as a constitutional right in the United States.

Thus, each American State is now free to prohibit or not the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVG).

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While several states, including Louisiana and Missouri, have already positioned themselves by announcing the prohibition of this practice on their territory, others have taken the side of defending this right.

This is the case of California and New York, which have guaranteed to open their doors to all women wishing to have an abortion, even though crossing borders represents a considerable cost for the most precarious.

Faced with this double penalty, several large American companies have claimed that they will cover the travel costs of their employees who need to have abortions in neighboring states, as reported by the

, June 25.

Among them, Starbucks, Uber, Tesla, Yelp, Airbnb, Microsoft, Netflix, Patagonia, Levi Strauss & Co, PayPal and Reddit.

Other major corporations soon followed suit, including Disney, Meta and Condé Nast.

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Support from leaders

The ready-to-wear brand Levi Strauss & Co has called on all its employees to radically oppose the Supreme Court's choice.

“The protection of reproductive rights is an issue that directly affects us as a business, since it impacts our employees, our economy, and progress towards gender and racial equality.

Given what is at stake, leaders need to speak up,” she said.

For its part, a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the country (170,000 employees), declared that the company “is focused on equal access to health care for all its employees”.

The latter assured that it would finance its female employees their travel expenses if they had to travel more than 80 kilometers to obtain treatment.

Even his tick for social network Reddit which explained that its “benefits programs are designed to support the health and safety of our employees, and we also have strong policies to support women in the workplace” .

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In a press release, the American technology company Lyft also regretted the decision of the Supreme Court, saying that it will “harm millions of women by removing their access to safe and private reproductive health services”.

Finally, the company Uber has promised to cover the legal costs if one of its drivers finds himself prosecuted for having helped a woman to have an abortion by driving her.