Companies say they’ll pay for abortion-related travel.
Even before a leaked Supreme Court opinion threw the future of abortion in the United States into turmoil, major corporations were adding a new benefit for their employees: coverage for abortion and other medical travel.to add the benefit was Amazon, which announced earlier this week that it will cover travel costs for employees who have to travel out of state for abortions or other medical procedures.
In some ways, the shift puts abortion in line with employer programs that offer mental health services or subscriptions to— another potentially sensitive type of care that can be hard to access. But that leaves employees caught between a rock and a hard place — they might be in a position where they have to either agree to disclose that information or risk not being able to get the care at all. “Arguably, that’s worse than the risk of a privacy invasion,” she says.of people get their insurance from employer plans. Abortion, though, has typically been one of the few medical procedures that exists outside of that relationship, Kirkland says.
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