Amazon as leaked Reuters, has been blunt with one of the biggest controversies in the United States. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will finance the layoff of its employees so that they can have an abortion if they want. If a healthcare facility accessible 100 miles – 160 kilometers – from where you live does not offer this treatment, Amazon will bear the cost of $4,000 for travel, maintenance, and the medical process.
And the fact is that, as they say, it seems that Amazon is forcing its employees to have abortions against their will. But the reality is that the Bezos company is strongly positioning itself against something that is aiming the world at the United States. Like it’s a dystopian reality, much like The Handmaid’s TaleNorth American country is going to pass a law banning abortion in some US states. Or, at least, with the freedoms that this right has enjoyed for years in some states of the country.
Amazon’s response, as a way to help employees who want abortions, coincides with a leaked U.S. Supreme Court report. Said report leaked by Politico won’t go into effect until next summer, which means it’s still subject to change, but Everything points to the infringement of women’s rights in some parts of the country. However, those that already regulate in favor of practice remain.
Limited to 6 weeks of pregnancy – when it is almost imperceptible to a woman – and only when the mother’s life is in danger – in this case weeks of treatment are extended. Women who undergo the procedure illegally, or those who assist in the process — doctors, associations, or even taxi drivers who take them to clinics — are also encouraged to file a complaint, with “prizes” of up to $10,000 per person. According to a 98-page report leaked to the press, with an absolute majority of conservative votes, the United States will repeal a law that has been in place since the 1970s, a pioneer in the world and in the field of women’s rights.
Amazon, a long tradition against the conservative side
But as the Supreme Court debates whether to revisit women’s rights decades ago, Amazon made its announcement not without controversy. “Amazon wants its employees to have abortions” or “promotes abortion tourism” can be read in some of the conservative headlines. The reality is that Bezos’s company isn’t the first to help its employees figure out their bodies. Apple, Citigroup or Yelp are other companies that fund interventions for women living in states where abortion is severely punished. What is not prohibited.
It is the verdict of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade dated January 22, 1973, which allows abortion in the country despite contrary legislation in some states. The one whose days, according to the latest data, are numbered. At the same time, more than 20 states adhere to family policies and significantly reduce the number of free abortions. In areas like Texas, abortion is illegal under the first heartbeat law. Or what is the same: limited when fetal heart rate is detected.
No surprises with Bezos
Amazon’s announcement also came as no surprise to the conservative camp in the United States. Jeff Bezos’s donations are known as Amazon, and not just in his personal capacity, to associations promoting free abortion. Planned Parenthood, which advocates for Rowe’s conviction against Wade, has received $275 million from the businessman to continue his mission.
It goes without saying that this measure already has the disapproval of the conservative side. On the one hand, the text published by the technology states that in addition to abortion, they will finance “any type of treatment that is not life-threatening.” It is this last point that, according to Republican senators, promotes anti-life action based on “leftist lies.”
In encouraging North American conservatives not to do business with Amazon, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling, speaking to daily wirenotes that “Amazon has been doing the bidding of the awakened left for years, from banning conservative books on its platform to partnering with a notorious supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center to block donations to right-wing groups.”
Source: Hiper Textual
