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Is Big Business trying to control a woman\u2019s uterus?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we started hearing about companies that were adding employee abortion<\/a> costs to their list of benefits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The media, fanning the flame of fear to women, lauded this as nothing less than goodwill from the employer as they saw the injustice of Roe v. Wade being overturned and women\u2019s choices being unjustly limited.<\/span><\/p>\n

CBS reported that companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Walt Disney, Target, and more have stepped into the pool of providing abortion benefits \u2014 including travel costs, housing, or medical funding if abortion was not offered in the employee\u2019s state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sounds like they have the needs of the employee in mind\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Or do they?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2016, Fast Company reported that Amazon offered 20 weeks of parental leave. Just seven years ago, Amazon and many of these same companies were coming up with creative ways to keep their employees with families because it was cheaper to bring in a temp for a short period of time than to recruit and train a new employee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flex Jobs Company wrote an article about corporations subsidizing childcare, one of those companies was Amazon. <\/span><\/p>\n

The article mentioned Amazon\u2019s Family Flex program which provided resources to create the right balance between home and work life care options including financial resources and flexible scheduling arrangements.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For years we had heard how corporations were embracing the family by including childcare incentives for employees or building childcare centers into their facilities.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

We saw these benefits as a way for women and men to continue advancing their careers while growing a family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2022 CBS reported, \u201cAmazon has expanded the travel and lodging benefit to cover travel for a number of non-life-threatening conditions, including abortion if a provider is not available within 100 miles of the employee\u2019s home.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

CBS noted that some companies offer as much as $4000 towards an employee\u2019s abortion experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Less than a decade ago, Amazon, among others, was offering supportive parenting paths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why have things changed so much?\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

Do these abortion benefits support women and their right to choose, or is it really just a bottom-line financial decision to ward off increasing costs by encouraging abortions through the mask of endorsing women\u2019s rights?<\/b><\/p>\n

To answer these questions, we took a line from the Jerry Maguire movie: \u201c<\/span>Show me the money<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the employer costs of a pregnancy:<\/span><\/p>\n