A handful of Ohio’s top employers are offering to pay their workers’ travel costs if they need to leave the state for abortion services, now that Ohio’s new abortion ban — as early as six weeks into a pregnancy — is in effect.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, memos from different companies started to surface that offered to pay travel expenses for employees who live in states that ban abortion.
That included reported memos from Kroger, Amazon, and JPMorgan Chase — three of Ohio’s top ten employers.
Abortion rights and health care advocates commended businesses that are offering to fill the gaps in available services.
“They’re making sure that their employees that have reproductive health needs — that can’t be met in that state — that they are able to access them, not in the best of ways, but in at least some way,” said Steve…
