Starbucks to add abortion journey coverage to U.S. health advantages

May 16 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) will reimburse U.S. employees if they need to journey more than 100 miles from their properties to obtain an abortion, in line with a memo despatched to employees on Monday.

The global coffee chain joins Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and a small however rising checklist of other corporations to offer the benefit as some U.S. states impose tighter restrictions on abortion. learn extra .

The problem gained urgency after Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court exhibiting that a conservative majority of justices supported overturning the Roe v. Wade resolution that legalized abortion nationwide learn extra

"Like a lot of you, I’m deeply concerned by the draft Supreme Court docket opinion associated to the constitutional proper to abortion that was first established by Roe v. Wade," wrote Sara Kelly, a human sources executive.

The benefit also applies to the dependents of staff, the memo said.

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Reporting by Hilary Russ Enhancing by Chizu Nomiyama

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