Another High-Profile Business Announces It Will Pay For Employees’ Abortion Tourism | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ben Zeisloft.

    After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, a new report from CNBC revealed that investment bank JPMorgan Chase will begin financing employees' travel to other states as they try to procure abortions.

    The 1973 opinion - which purported that abortion is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution - was overturned through the court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. After Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion leaked in early May, several businesses began announcing that they would pay travel expenses for employees obtaining abortions.

    JPMorgan Chase affirmed that it will fund employees' travel to other states as they seek abortions beginning in July, according to a June 1 memo published on Friday by CNBC. The new benefits also apply to "family building benefits, such as cryopreservation."

    "We will also expand our existing health care travel benefit, which today covers certain services such as organ transplants, to all covered health care services that can only be obtained far from your home," JPMorgan said.

    The memo linked to a question-and-answer page asking, "Will you pay for an employee to travel to another state to seek an abortion if their state won't allow them to get one?"

    "Yes. Our health care plans have historically covered travel benefits for certain covered services that would require travel," JPMorgan said. "Beginning in July, we will expand this benefit to include all covered services that can only be obtained far from your home, which would include legal abortion."

    Technology company Microsoft made a similar announcement earlier in May.

    "Microsoft will continue to do everything we can under the law to protect our employees' rights and support employees and their enrolled dependents in accessing critical health care - which already includes services like abortion and gender-affirming care - regardless of where they live across the U.S.," Microsoft told The Washington Post. "This support is being extended to include travel expense assistance for these and other medical services where access to care is limited in availability in an employee's home geographic region."

    Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss said days after Alito's opinion leaked that "business leaders need to make their voices heard and act to protect the health and well-being of our employees."

    "Under our current benefits plan, Levi Strauss & Co. employees are eligible for reimbursement for healthcare-related travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including those related to reproductive health care and abortion," the company said in a press release.

    E-commerce giant Amazon announced a similar move, while a report released by electric carmaker Tesla showed that the company added "travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services that are unavailable in their home state" to its safety net and health insurance offerings last year.

    In May, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) encouraged companies to provide travel expenses for workers procuring abortions, arguing that the overturn of Roe v. Wade would represent "the first time the court has taken back a freedom that was defined by precedent and respect for privacy."

    Likewise, Canadian Minister of Families Karina Gould said that Americans would be welcome to get abortions in her nation, saying that she was "concerned" about the implications of the Supreme Court's decision for American and Canadian women.

poll#152

With Roe v Wade (originated in 1973) overturned by the US Supreme Court, thereby allowing decisions on abortion legislation completely returned to the states: Where do you find your position on such a "Life and Death" issue for the American People?

  Yes, I approve of the US Supreme Court's decision to reinstate this "medical" issue back to the states' legislative responsibility to regulate.

  No, I believe that every woman should have complete access to abortion on demand.

  This issue is far beyond my intellectual capacity to understand.

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poll#150

With respect to the leaked opinion not yet written for ratification regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's revisiting the original decision of Roe v Wade, whence now nonstop protests have erupted in neighborhoods where U.S. Supreme Court justices live, exhibiting the firm intent to intimidate these officers of the highest court in the land: What action should the federal authorities take?

  Do nothing ... Protests are a fixture of a free society.

  Enforce the law ... Federal codes exist to prohibit any intimidation through the pubic harassment of federal judges, especially Supreme Court justices.

  I have no idea, however, northern Virginia School Board Members must be shielded from protests at all costs.

549 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?