Since conservative-leaning states began flexing their legislative muscles to outlaw abortion within their borders or severely limit its practice, companies from the likes of Amazon to Yelp have been drafting policies that will pay for employees’ abortions should they live in a state that outlaws the practice. After Politico published the leaked Supreme Court decision indicating that Roe v. Wade may be in its final days, more and more companies have been actively considering implementing such a practice, with none other than Amazon joining the fold this week.
CNN reported on Wednesday.
Amazon became the latest corporation to cover employees’ travel costs to seek abortion care. The company told staff it would pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for medical treatments including abortions, according to a message seen by Reuters. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the nature of the Reuters report to CNN Business.
Amazon joined Citigroup, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Bumble, Match Group, and Salesforce to draft such a policy. On Tuesday, Levi Strauss & Co. reminded its employees that its current benefits program will grant reimbursements “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:
Access to reproductive health care, including abortion, has been a critical factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the past 50 years. Further restricting or criminalizing access will jeopardize that progress and disproportionately affect women of color, putting their well-being at risk and impeding diverse hiring pipelines….
Likewise, Match Group CEO Shar Dubey said in a statement that she “personally, as a woman in Texas, could not keep silent” when the company announced its abortion tourism policy this past September in response to the Texas law that banned abortion in most cases….
The above comes from a May 4 posting on Breitbart.com.
This reminds me of another instance of big business facilitating mass killings of innocents. The Volkswagen company originated during the Third Reich in an attempt to create an affordable car for the German people. Volkswagen used both Jewish and non-Jewish forced labor, primarily from eastern Europe. The company operated four concentration camps and eight forced-labor camps on its property. Car ownership and travel were intended to be another part of the Nazi vision of the Volksgemeinschaft (People’s Community). In 1942, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels described the future of Germany as that of “a happy people in a country full of blossoming beauty, traversed by the silver ribbons of wide roads, which are open to the modest car for the small man.” (Jews were deprived of the right to drive automobiles after Kristallnacht in 1938. By defining them out of humanity, it was “easier” to “dispose” of them.) We will strive to move our very small personal business to other companies. If our nation’s 70 million Catholics did so, we could influence these businesses, while we pray for the conversion of corporate leaders.
Good luck with that. Almost everyone (I’d guess 98%) of people reading this are using technology produced by companies who are either doing this, thinking about it, or have done similar things. Although the Catholic Church emphasizes personal sin, we are all guilty of corporate sin.
Can my diocese start paying for Catholics to travel to other dioceses if we can’t get reverent liturgy or orthodox catechesis at a parish in our home diocese?
Abortion is not “reproductive health care.” It is murder.
Let’s see… doctor? check. patient? check. Health care.
Let’s see… doctor: Joseph Mengele check and patient: St. Maximilian Kolbe check Health care?!
Are you serious?
Where be the feminists?
Isn’t this a delayed and prolonged
extension of the treatment given
the ladies on “the morning after the night before?”
i.e. cab fare home?
Sadly, Elon Musk and Tesla are joining the abortion travel business and paying for their employees to kill their children.
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/elon-musks-tesla-is-paying-for-employees-to-get-abortions-out-of-state-as-the-supreme-court-looks-likely-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/articleshow/91385423.cms