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JP Morgan Chase Co. is among one of the employers announcing it will pay for travel for abortion care.Companies across the country are expanding employee benefits after, otherwise known as the “heartbeat bill,” earlier this year. After a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion was made public last month, some companies responded by assuring employees working in Texas and other states with restrictive laws that they would still be able to obtain care.
Among those companies are JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest U.S. bank. It employs nearly 14,600 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, and it has announced that it will pay for employees to travel to another state if needed to obtain a legal abortion. The benefit is effective beginning July 1.Dallas-based Match Group set up a fund in October that continues to be available for Texas employees who need safe access to abortion care, through a partnership with Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles.
In May, California-based software company Salesforce announced that it will relocate employees worried about access to abortions or other medical procedures,Businesses that speak out may be targeted by the Texas legislature,Fourteen Republican members of the state House of Representatives have pledged to introduce bills in the coming legislative session that would keep corporations from doing business in Texas if the firms pay for out-of-state abortions.
Overturning Roe renders abortion illegal in nearly half the country. The current Texas law bans the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.. Alexandra Skores is the breaking business news reporter covering local companies and economic topics. She's a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was managing editor of the award-winning student newspaper, The Daily Iowan. Alexandra has previously worked at the Oregonian in Portland, OR and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, IA.
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