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Efforts to Provide Out-of-State Abortion Travel Benefits Face Rapidly Shifting Legal Landscape

Employment attorneys say the breadth of new state laws — and the pace at which they are going into effect — means in-house counsel at companies trying to create workarounds for employees in states with restrictive abortion laws by providing benefits that would allow them to travel out-of-state to access abortion services will need to be on high alert, since keeping up on top of the laws will be key to limiting their exposure to litigation — or even criminal penalties.

5 minute readAugust 01, 2022 at 12:05 AM
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Jessica Mach
Efforts to Provide Out-of-State Abortion Travel Benefits Face Rapidly Shifting Legal Landscape

Some companies are trying to create workarounds for employees in states with restrictive abortion laws by providing benefits that would allow them to travel out-of-state to access abortion services, joining a chorus of companies that announced they would do so in response to a Texas law last year and the leak of a draft version of the opinion in May.

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