Apple responds to Roe v. Wade rollback, company benefits cover out-of-state travel for reproductive care

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The statement comes as corporations around the country, including Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta are committing to pay for employees to travel to receive abortions if they are in states where it is banned after the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, rolling back the federal right to receive an abortion.
For more than a decade, Apple's comprehensive benefits have allowed our employees to travel out-of-state for medical care if it is unavailable in their home state," an Apple spokesperson told CNBC.
In September, Apple said in an internal memo that it was monitoring legal proceedings about abortion laws in Texas, and said at the time that the company's benefits give employees the ability to get medical care out-of-state if it's unavailable in their home state.
Apple's Health app does have a cycle tracking feature, and if data is uploaded to Apple's servers for backup and the user has two-factor authentication on, then it's encrypted, meaning that Apple cannot read the data.