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Starbucks joins Tesla, Microsoft, and others in paying employee travel costs for abortions
Starbucks said it will reimburse employees for travel expenses incurred when seeking abortions or gender-affirming surgeries out of state.
They join S&P 500 companies such as Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Salesforce, that are offering the benefit to workers who cannot gain immediate access to the procedures.
A Starbucks spokesperson told The Post that employees who won’t be able to access abortion services or gender-affirming care within 100 miles of their home will have their travel expenses covered by the company. The benefit will also be extended to dependents who are covered by Starbucks’ health plan, according to the company.
“Like many of you, I’m deeply concerned by the draft Supreme Court opinion related to the constitutional right to abortion that was first established by Roe v. Wade,” Starbucks’ Acting Executive Vice President Sara Kelly told employees in an email.
She said the company “will always ensure our partners (employees) have access to quality healthcare. And when actions impact your access to healthcare, we will work on a way to make sure you feel supported.”
Earlier this month, a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated the court may be preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that established a constitutional right to an abortion.
The 67-page draft, first reported by Politico, declared that Roe was “egregiously wrong and deeply damaging.”
Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that the draft, written in February, wasn’t necessarily the final resolution in the case. The court is expected to issue its opinion by the end of June or early July.
Earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced legislation that would bar companies from receiving tax breaks for funding employees’ travel expenses for abortions or for gender-affirming procedures.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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The business are promoting deviant behavior. Sex-appearance change operations do change a person gender – they just sterilize them. This is about eliminating responsibility and promoting deviant behaviors as well as mental illnesses. But this is to be expected by businesses, especially those controlled by people who want to exterminate 1/3 to 2/3 of the population. And remember, there are only two justifications for an abortion – the child is dead in the womb and Ectopic pregnancies in which both the mother and child will end up dead.