As the country awaits the Supreme Court’s decision about whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, prominent companies have already taken political and financial stands against the erosion of reproductive rights.
The issue gained more urgency Monday after Politico published a leaked draft of the high court’s pending majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that indicated a majority of justices have voted to take away the constitutional right to an abortion.
The case, which questions the constitutionality of state bans on elective “pre-viability” abortions, is one of the court’s most controversial cases in decades — so much so that the highly charged and personal debate over a right to an abortion is spilling over into the corporate sphere.
Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Bumble (BMBL), Citigroup (C), Levi Strauss (LEVI), Match Group (MTCH), and Yelp (YELP) reimburse travel expenses incurred to obtain abortion care that’s legally unavailable within their home state.
Meanwhile, Salesforce (CRM) is offering to pick up moving expenses for its employees who live in a state with an abortion ban exceeding that of Roe, and move to another without such restrictions.
Alexis Keenan is a legal reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow Alexis on Twitter @alexiskweed.
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