🍿 2022-06-24 22:18:56 – Paris/France.
The Walt Disney Company. said on Friday that it would cover travel expenses for employees for abortionsfollowing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Washington Post said the benefit covers the cost of "family planning" travel for any worker who cannot access care where they live, Disney said, including "pregnancy-related decisions."
“We recognize the impact of the decision and remain committed to providing full access to affordable, quality care for all of our employees, cast members and their families, including family planning and reproductive care, regardless of regardless of where they live,” Disney said in a statement. declaration communicated to the Post Office.
In addition, similar announcements were made by Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Comcastwhich underscore the unusual role of corporate America in protecting reproductive rights following the High Court ruling.
A Netflix spokesperson told Variety, "Netflix provides travel reimbursement coverage for full-time U.S. employees and their dependents who must travel for cancer treatment, transplants, affirmation care. gender or abortion, through our US health plans.
This is a lifetime mission of 10 thousand dollars per employee and/or their dependents for the service.
Variety confirmed that Comcast has a travel benefit that covers medical services and procedures for Comcast and NBCUniversal employees that are not available near an employee's home. Bob Bakichand the personnel manager, Nancy Phillipsthey sent a memo to staff on Friday, obtained by Variety, confirming the company's intentions to cover travel expenses for employees considering abortions.
US Supreme Court strikes down abortion rights
Sony employees in the United States are reimbursed for travel if necessary to access health care services available under its health plan, which includes reproductive health care, a source confirmed.
the very conservative United States Supreme Court end this Friday to a sentence which for almost half a century guaranteed the right of women to abortion, but which had never been accepted by the religious right.
This decision does not make terminations of pregnancy illegal, but rather returns the United States to the situation in effect before the sentencing.Roe vs. Wadeof 1973, where each state was free to authorize them or not.
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In a very divided country, it is likely that half of the states, especially in the more conservative and religious South and Center, could ban them in the short term.
"The Constitution makes no reference to abortion and none of its articles implicitly protects this right," wrote Judge Samuel Alito, on behalf of the majority. Roe vs. Wade “must be canceled”.
“It is time to return the question of abortion to the elected representatives of the people”, to local parliaments, he writes. A formulation very close to the draft sentence which had leaked in early May, causing major demonstrations throughout the country and a wave of indignation on the left.
Read also: “The Court took away a fundamental right”, says Biden in decision to revoke the right to abortion
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