Posted on 05/03/2022 7:38:22 PM PDT by Morgana
Millions of women in more than 25 states face an abortion ban if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized the procedure nationwide. For many of those women, employers’ benefit packages may be the only way they can soon afford a legal abortion.
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.
The company’s announcement echoes similar moves by Citigroup, Yelp, Uber and Lyft to help employees bypass Republican-led efforts in several states to effectively ban abortion. And it comes just hours after a bombshell report by Politico indicated the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade.
CNN has not independently confirmed the Politico report, and a Supreme Court spokesperson declined to comment.
If Roe is overturned, legislatures in 26 states have pending laws indicating that they intend to ban abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. That could leave many women in need of abortion services hundreds or thousands of miles away from access to the procedure — unaffordable for many.
Corporate America is increasingly being drawn from the political sidelines on the abortion issue in response to pressure from investors, customers and employees. Companies are also struggling to attract and retain talent and worry about the impact these states’ anti-abortion laws could have on their workers.
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Citigroup, Yelp, Uber and Lyft - because killing babies is Job #1
Atheist, right?
Wouldn’t providing these funds for service to an employee make the employee liable for being taxed as essentially “income” by the IRS at tax-time?
I wish there was no killing and far from an Atheist.
I’m saying it is INEVITABLE and an endless natural cycle based on human nature we have seen time and time again. You cannot change the nature of idiots who have no comprehension of anything but their own impulses.
When idiots are coddled and their genetic influence increases to a certain level, civilization inevitably slides into uncontrolled collapse and war. Good times lead to weak men which leads to hard times.
Not seeing this and allowing civilization to repeat the cycles leading to inevitable unspeakable violence, I believe is a darker spiritual path than taking calculated preventative measures.
You see, I’m from Ukraine and well aware of what collapse and starvation is. To survive, entire regions of people were FORCED with the brutal choice of 1) mercifully killing some of their own living children to allow the remainder enough to eat, 2) killing their neighbors for a food source, 3) Killing their entire family and themselves, or 4) Suffering unspeakably while the body of each family member slowly gave up.
It’s easy to talk spirituality when you have enough to survive but true hunger FORCES even the most devout people into only the most horrific options simply to live...
Abortion is a component of societal decay. It is not just the low IQ who are aborting. Wealth and brains are aborting, too, as they see children as accessories rather than as responsibilities, and limit their progeny to one or occasionally two by abortion. Abortion joins the other misbegotten “rights” that are being forced into the society like the whole homosexual galaxy being now injected into our children’s minds in school, the lionizing of the criminals and preferring them to law-abiders, the destruction of police departments, the marginalizing of religion and promotion of totalitarian ideologies like Marxism and Islam, the falsification of elections, and a host of et al. You don’t fight his by joining one portion of it as some sort of insulation against the rest of it. That is self defeating and like paying the mob to not destroy our store. The moob escalates and demands more and either you have destroyed your own business or the mob does it for you anyway.
“Wealth and brains are aborting, too, as they see children as accessories rather than as responsibilities, and limit their progeny to one or occasionally two by abortion.”
Also idiots and far from true “wealth and brains”...
I get you.
A woman who has been raped and became pregnant from the tragedy is in a different position than I will ever be in, however, she will not be un-raped by being party to the murder of the innocent child she is carrying. That nightmare will be with her all her days. She will be additionally stuck with the guilt of taking its life when it is the rapist who should be executed.
Complications of pregnancy will obviously have to be considered as per each case.
Those two aforementioned extenuating circumstances are a teeny tiny portion of “abortions on demand”, as I’m sure you are aware. THAT is what this is all about.
If I was an atheist I could eat that dish with relish.
I’m not sure that forcing her to give birth, and the knowledge that the child is alive somewhere, is not ‘raping’ her over and over. I think it can do a lot of further damage to someone emotionally and mentally.
And while I realize that the cases I mention are a tiny percentage of abortion scenarios, there are people who don’t believe abortion should be allowable under any circumstances at all. I just don’t agree with that.
I have interviewed 5 different women who have had abortions, and the ALL regretted what they did to the tune of them crying as they told me. I have only interviewed 2 women who have been raped and neither became pregnant. They both still have traumatic episodes and my heart is BROKEN for them. Why would I want them to also carry the guilt of killing the baby for something it had no fault in?
We disagree but I do see where you’re at.
RE: interview—I was able to have long conversations with these ladies after learning of their experiences that they brought up in various social circumstances. I’m not some reporter or statistic guy, just extremely curious as the effects of traumatic experiences on people.
It has nothing to do with what you might ‘want’ for them, or your assumption of how they might wind up feeling. Despite your experience with some women, there are others for whom it would be horrible to carry and bear that child. I think the choice should be there for them.
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