Yet the biggest companies in America are offering travel reimbursement and other benefits to employees in states that restrict abortion access. Forbes is continuing to track which companies are providing abortion-related benefits to employees who live in states that are restricting or banning abortion access. For shareholder activists like Shelley Alpern, who runs corporate engagement initiatives at Rhia Ventures, a nonprofit that invests in reproductive health companies, the corporations that have thus far stayed quiet will need to speak up. The bank also said it was launching a grassroots fundraising drive for organizations responding to the access issue called the Critical Reproductive Access Fund (CRAF). “Access to reproductive health care, including abortion, has been a critical factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the past 50 years.

Source: Forbes June 25, 2022 08:19 UTC