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    Companies say they'll help employees access abortion. Are they serious about it?

    by Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times Jul 01, 2022 5 minutes
    Starbucks se encuentra entre las empresas que prometen ayudar a las empleadas que desean abortar a viajar a estados donde siguen siendo legales.

    After the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, a wide swath of corporate America came out with a message for its workforce: We will pay to help you get an abortion in a place where it's still available.

    From banking to technology to entertainment, executives vowed to support access to the procedure, some pledging as much as $10,000 to cover employees' travel for abortion care. But it wasn't immediately clear how any of this would work in practice.

    Would a worker have to tell their employer that they needed an abortion to secure travel reimbursement funds? How would companies ensure workers' privacy? What would they do to protect employees — and themselves — from potential legal attacks, such as those made possible by a Texas law that allows private citizens to sue anyone

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