{"id":1466486,"date":"2022-05-06T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466486"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:44:48","slug":"levis-will-reimburse-some-employees-for-abortion-related-travel-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/levis-will-reimburse-some-employees-for-abortion-related-travel-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi\u2019s Will Reimburse Some Employees For Abortion-Related Travel Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flevis-will-reimburse-some-employees-for-abortion-related-travel-expenses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Levis-Jeans.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Levi Strauss and Co. is the latest corporation to announce that it will reimburse travel expenses for some employees who receive abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Levi\u2019s, as the popular jeans company is commonly known, announced on Wednesday that \u201cbusiness leaders need to make their voices heard and act to protect the health and well-being of our employees. That means protecting reproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder our current benefits plan, Levi Strauss &#038; Co. employees are eligible for reimbursement for healthcare-related travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including those related to reproductive health care and abortion,\u201d the company said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced that it will soon extend that part of the benefits package to part-time workers, so they too can be reimbursed for getting an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just days after Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-key-takeaways-from-the-leaked-majority-opinion-draft-overruling-roe-v-wade\">reported<\/a> on a leaked opinion draft from the Supreme Court of the United States that revealed the Supreme Court appears to be poised to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>and send the issue of abortion back to the states.<\/p>\n<p>Levi\u2019s also claimed further that \u201crestricting or criminalizing access will jeopardize that progress and disproportionately affect women of color, putting their well-being at risk and impeding diverse hiring pipelines. Women in some states would have fewer rights than women in others, and our country would be consigned to a more unjust and inequitable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If <em>Roe<\/em> were overturned, abortion would still be legal in the U.S., but different states may have different restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The company also explained that changing abortion laws in the U.S. could cause difficulty for the company\u2019s internal benefits package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s more, companies would need different health policies for different locations \u2013 including coverage for time off and travel across state lines \u2013 to ensure employees can access reproductive health care,\u201d Levi\u2019s said.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Amazon, the e-commerce giant, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/subsidizing-the-abortion-industry-amazon-to-fund-abortion-tourism-for-its-employees\">announced<\/a> that it would fund abortion tourism by paying up to $4,000 in travel expenses for employees who want to go out of state to get an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at a staff meeting on Monday, and includes a variety of medically related travel expenses as well as allowing abortions as qualified travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to that story,\u00a0American Principles Project President Terry Schilling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/subsidizing-the-abortion-industry-amazon-to-fund-abortion-tourism-for-its-employees\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that he was not surprised by the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sadly no surprise to see Amazon assisting in efforts to circumvent pro-life laws,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter all, they have been doing the woke Left\u2019s bidding for years \u2014 from banning conservative books on their platform to partnering with the notoriously partisan Southern Poverty Law Center to block donations to right-leaning groups, among other activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives by now should be thinking twice before doing business with Amazon, and at the very least, Republican leaders should stop providing any special benefits to a company that is clearly working against the interests of American families,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that this isn\u2019t the first time that Levi\u2019s has waded into the culture war. In the past, the company has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/2020\/08\/24\/levi-strauss-foundation-supports-reproductive-justice\/\">bragged<\/a> about using The Levi Strauss Foundation to support pro-abortion causes around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levi Strauss and Co. is the latest corporation to announce that it will reimburse travel expenses for some employees who receive abortions.Levi\u2019s, as the popular jeans company is commonly known,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1481874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}