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 displacement of its employees so that they can undergo an abortion if that is what they want. If the healthcare available 100 miles –160 kilometers– from your residence does not offer this treatment, Amazon will assume the cost with $4,000 to pay for travel, maintenance and medical process.
And it is that, said like this, it seems that Amazon is forcing its employees to undergo an abortion against their will. But the reality is that Bezos’s company is positioning itself strongly against something that has the world with its sights set on the United States. As if it were a dystopian reality, very similar to the Handmaid’s Talethe North American country is about to pass a law that would ban abortion in some US states. Or at least under the freedoms that this right has enjoyed for years in some of the states of the country.
Amazon’s response, as a way to help employees who want to have an abortion, coincides with the leak of a report from the United States Supreme Court. Said report, leaked by Politico, would not come into force until next summer – which means that it is still subject to change – but Everything points to a reduction in women’s rights in some parts of the country. However, those that already regulate in favor of the practice remain.
Limited to 6 weeks of pregnancy – when it is practically imperceptible by women – and only when the life of the mother is in danger – in which case the weeks to undergo treatment are extended. Women who undergo the procedure illegally or those who help 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. give notice. With an absolute majority of the conservative vote according to the 98-page report leaked to the press, the United States would annul a law that has been in force since the 1970s. A pioneer in the world and in women’s rights.
Amazon, a long tradition against the conservative side
But while the Supreme Court is debating whether to go back decades in women’s rights, Amazon has made its announcement not without controversy. “Amazon wants its employees to have abortions” or “promotes abortion tourism” can be read in some conservative headlines. The reality is that Bezos’s company is not the first to help its employees decide about their bodies. Apple, Citigroup or Yelp are other companies that have been financing the costs of interventions for women who reside in states where abortion is highly persecuted. Which is not prohibited.
It is precisely the sentence of the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade case, of January 22, 1973, which allows abortion in the country despite contrary legislation in some states. The same one that, according to the latest reports, has its days numbered. With this, there are more than 20 states that have a pro-family policy and greatly reduce free abortion options. In regions like Texas, abortion is prohibited under the law of the first heartbeat. Or what is the same: limited when the fetal heartbeat is detectable.
No surprises with Bezos
Nor does Amazon’s announcement come as a surprise to the conservative camp in the United States. Jeff Bezos’s donations are known, under the name of Amazon and not only in a personal capacity, to associations that promote free abortion. Planned Parenthood, an advocate of upholding Roe’s sentence against Wade, was the recipient of $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 indicates that in addition to abortion, they will finance “any type of treatment that does not endanger life.” It is this last point that, according to Republican senators, promotes anti-life activities based on “leftist lies.”
Encouraging North American conservatives not to do business with Amazon, the president of the American Principles Project, Terry Schilling, speaking to The Daily Wirenotes that “Amazon has been doing the bidding of the awakened left for years, from banning conservative books from its platform to partnering with the notoriously partisan Southern Poverty Law Center to block donations to right-leaning groups.”