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LetMyPeopleVote

(154,580 posts)
Wed May 4, 2022, 01:27 AM May 2022

Apple, Amazon among Texas companies that promise to help employees get abortions despite trigger law

Several companies will fly employees to other states to get abortions




https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Apple-Amazon-among-Texas-companies-that-promise-17144880.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

The Supreme Court’s apparent decision to allow state lawmakers to make women’s health care choices puts chief executives in a tough spot, forcing them to choose between their employees’ rights and right-wing backlash.

Disney’s recent experience defending LGBT rights against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s demagoguery will sadly encourage cowardice.

Millions of Texans are waiting to hear how their employee health insurance will handle abortion coverage when the procedure becomes a first-degree felony punishable by life in prison.....

Employers of 60 percent of Americans with company-sponsored health insurance, though, use self-funded plans. These are exempt from state regulations, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care research organization. Only 14 percent of self-funded plans exclude some or all abortions.

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Apple, Amazon among Texas companies that promise to help employees get abortions despite trigger law (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 OP
Until it is illegal to aid or abet. Voltaire2 May 2022 #1
Maybe 'employees' who support civil rights will fly out of Texas to sinkingfeeling May 2022 #2
Big props to Levi Strauss. LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #3

Voltaire2

(14,721 posts)
1. Until it is illegal to aid or abet.
Wed May 4, 2022, 04:31 AM
May 2022

Then they will comply. Oh, and continue to make political donations to the fascist theocrats.

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