MasterCard and Starbucks to cover abortion travel for workers

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• MoneyWatch Updated on: May 19, 2022 / 3:56 PM / MoneyWatch Companies offer abortion care benefits Big companies provide employee benefits to assist with abortion care 04:28 MasterCard, PayPal and Starbucks are among the companies on a growing list to say they'll help pay for employees to travel for abortions if the procedure is not available where they live.
• "We will continue to offer employees access to the same health care that is available today wherever they live," a spokesperson for MasterCard stated in an email, confirming a report by Bloomberg News.
• PayPal made the decision to pay for employees to travel for abortions in necessary after the Texas Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, something that can happen within six weeks of pregnancy.
• Abortion rights activists gather in D.C. to march, protest potential Roe v. Wade reversal 02:16 "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," Sara Kelly, Starbucks' acting executive vice president for employee resources, said in a blog post.

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