Tesla is paying for employees to get abortions out of state as the Supreme Court looks likely to ove

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Tesla is paying for employees to get abortions out of state as the Supreme Court looks likely to overturn Roe v. Wade

Business Insider via Yahoo News

Tesla, the electric vehicle company owned by billionaire and soon-to-be Twitter owner Elon Musk, is paying for employees to get out-of-state abortions.

According to the company's 2021 Impact Report, Tesla began providing an "expanded Safety Net program and health insurance offering" last year, which includes "travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services that are unavailable in their home state."

That came after the company relocated to Texas, where abortion was outlawed after the six-week mark in August 2021.

That policy places Tesla among a growing list of companies that are helping employees access abortion care in the wake of new restrictions passed at the state level, as well as fresh concerns that Roe v. Wade could be overturned next month following the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion doing just that.

And it puts Musk — who's otherwise become a hero among conservatives following his purchase of Twitter last month — at odds with some of his cheerleaders.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Elon Musk IS Tesla. Elon Musk supports Abortion rights.

So much for his Conservative bona fides.

[LonePirate]

8. If he supported it, then he and Tesla would start pressuring/speaking out against the Texas law.

[AntivaxHunters]

9. Libertarians support abortion rights & he's a d-bag

[onecaliberal]

2. Hey maggots, why is Elon paying for abortions?

[Mr.Bill]

3. Watch Abbott

run him out of Texas.

[sop]

5. DeSantis would.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Disney should make the same announcement. n/t

[sop]

11. They probably will after DeSantis makes abortion a crime in Florida.

[Hoyt]

4. He'll get no credit for it.

[USALiberal]

15. So true!!!

[PlanetBev]

6. Unpredictable guy, to be sure

If it puts a thumb in Abbott’s eye, good on him. 👏

[DBoon]

10. Elon wants employees who devote every minute of their day to the job

Bearing and raising a child is incompatible that that sort of work ethic.

Therefore Elon supports abortions for his employees.

[sop]

12. Seriously, he does.

[llmart]

14. He and a whole lot of other business owners.

A lot of companies have women in important positions and a majority of their workforce is women. They're not going to operate very well if women aren't working.

I was just thinking about the fact that more women are now entering the astronaut program at NASA and can you imagine all the training that goes into being an astronaut? Did you know there is currently the very first woman as Launch Director for the next moon mission? I don't know Space X's numbers, but I'm sure they are similar to NASA in that there are a whole lot of women. Can you imagine if Musk didn't come out to show his support that those women couldn't go elsewhere?

I think we're going to see more CEO's and company owners publicly come out to condemn the Supreme Court for this travesty.

[In It to Win It]

13. Under TX law, Elon Musk and/or Tesla could be sued under their bounty hunter abortion law, right?