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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.
The Hyde Amendment does allow for federal funds to be spent on abortions if continuing a pregnancy endangers the life of the mother or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
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 ...
There have been several deaths in California as a result of illegal abortions, including 35 in 1966 and 1967. California uses its own funds to cover all "medically necessary" abortions sought by low-income women under Medicaid. 88,466 were state-funded in 2010. California has an active abortion rights activist community.
[97] Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor emerita Marjorie Cohn wrote an opinion article in Truthout on September 21 of the need to pass Proposition 1 because "the California Constitution does not explicitly contain the right to abortion. A future California Supreme Court could overrule Myers, and hold that the constitutional right to ...
Starbucks will pay the travel expenses for employees seeking an abortion or gender-affirming procedures when those services are unavailable within 100 miles.
Governments sometimes take measures designed to afford legal protection of access to abortion. Such legislation often seeks to guard facilities which provide induced abortion against obstruction , vandalism , picketing , and other actions, or to protect patients and employees of such facilities from threats and harassment (see sidewalk ...
Proposition 1 would amend Article 1 the California Constitution by outlawing state action “denying or interfering” with the “fundamental right to choose to have an abortion.” Existing ...