'We think that ultimately a company is only as strong as the families that built it, and then for us, we're a pro-family company,' PublicSq CEO Michael Seifert said.
The Republicans said they ‘are appalled by the flagrant disregard for the law expressed by the Department’ and demanded a meeting to ‘reiterate our expectation that this memorandum be immediately withdrawn’.
‘It has always felt unjust to me that there are clinics in the U.S. that provide misleading information or conduct deceptive tactics to steer pregnant people away from abortion care,’ the company’s vice president of user operations said.
The largest private employer in the U.S. is now covering procedure and travel expenses for abortions up until “fetal viability,” which would include the great majority of sought-after abortions.
The policy will kick in for any of the company’s 240,000 employees who would need to travel 100 miles or more to get an abortion or ‘gender-affirming’ surgical procedure.
Amazon is the latest company to try to help its employees bypass pro-life state laws by funding their travel expenses for abortions across state lines.