After a number of US states passed laws severely restricting access to abortions, Citigroup this week said it is providing employees with travel benefits to facilitate access to abortion clinics.
Highlights
- Citigroup’s new policy covers employees’ expenses when traveling to seek an abortion, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
- The company declined to comment beyond what it published in its proxy statement.
- Several states have recently passed laws that make many abortions illegal.
- A Texas law passed in September 2021 states anyone in the U.S.
- can bring legal action against people who help pregnant women get abortions.
- The US Supreme Court in September denied a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze a controversial state abortion law that went into effect last September.