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Starbucks on Monday said it will cover travel expenses for U.S. employees seeking abortions but who do not have access within 100 miles of their home.
Starbucks has 240,000 U.S. employees; it was not immediately clear what percentage of them are enrolled in the company's health care plan. Starbucks will cover travel for workers seeking abortions ...
Starbucks will pay the travel expenses for employees seeking an abortion or gender-affirming procedures when those services are unavailable within 100 miles.
Starbucks' footprint in the United States, showing saturation of metropolitan areas. Some of the methods Starbucks has used to expand and maintain their dominant market position, including buying out competitors' leases, intentionally operating at a loss, and clustering several locations in a small geographical area (i.e., saturating the market), have been labeled anti-competitive by critics. [14]
In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except to save the life of the woman, or if the pregnancy arises from incest or rape. [1] [2] Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions were performed annually using federal funds. [3]
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a social welfare, nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the United States by supporting anti-abortion politicians, primarily women, through its SBA List Candidate Fund political action committee. [30]
U.S. employers' obligation to accommodate workers' pregnancies also extends to abortions and the use of contraception, the U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Monday.
Executive Order 13535 is an executive order announced by President Barack Obama on March 21, 2010, and signed on March 24, 2010. It reinforces a commitment to preservation of the Hyde Amendment's policy restricting federal funds for abortion within the context of recent health care legislation.