At least 42 companies in the Fortune 100 pay for employees to travel for an abortion in states where it isn’t available, according to a new report from the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Forty-two companies is likely an undercount because coverage for abortion travel is becoming standard in many health care plans for procedures not available nearby, according to the EPPC report from Alexandra Desanctis and Nathaniel Blake.
Two other corporations suggest they also provide abortion travel coverage.
Most of the companies that publicly affirmed coverage for abortion-related travel don’t provide public information on their child-care benefits.
The cost of covering abortion is much cheaper for a corporation than paying for maternity leave, prenatal and maternal health care, child care, and the possibility of losing the employee, the report…
