Yelp to Fund Travel Expenses for Employees Seeking Abortions
April 19, 2022 | California, Texas
Review company Yelp has joined banking giant Citigroup in promising to cover travel expenses for employees seeking out-of-state abortions. The new policy is in response to states enacting pro-life laws, which soon will be able to take effect if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in this term’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Yelp has only about 4,000 employees, 200 of whom live in Texas, where the state’s Heartbeat Act protects unborn children from abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The company announced that as of now, its new policy will apply to employees in Texas, as well as Oklahoma, where a ban on most abortions was recently signed, though it is expected to be challenged and blocked in court before it can take effect, a fact left out of most media coverage of Yelp’s policy…. (Excerpt from the National Review)
