Amazon will cover travel expenses for its employees who need to undergo some non-emergency medical procedures, including abortions, as more and more conservative states pass legislation restricting this right of women.
The e-commerce giant, which has about one million employees in the United States, will pay up to $ 4,000 in travel and subsistence allowance for its employees to access medical services that are not available within 160 miles of their place of residence.
Non-emergency medical procedures for which Amazon employees will be reimbursed for travel expenses include cancer treatment, obesity, genetic abnormalities (the first 24 months after the birth of a child), for mental health but also for detoxification.
Since the fall, many American companies have expressed support, internally or publicly, for women’s right to abortion.
Citigroup announced in March that its employees would receive compensation in case they needed to travel to have an abortion, saying its decision was a response to new legislation passed in several US states.
As of September 1, 2021, one of the most restrictive laws in the United States came into force in Texas, according to which any abortion is prohibited from the moment a fetal heartbeat can be detected, around the sixth week of pregnancy.
Since then, bills that also restrict women’s access to abortion have been passed in various conservative states, including Oklahoma, Florida and Mississippi.
SOURCE: AMPE
Source: Capital
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