Goldman Sachs, JPM weigh paying abortion travel costs: report

Major US financial institutions Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are talking about extending abortion benefits for employees to address journey, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people today with know-how of the subject.

The Wall Road giants could spend travel expenses for staffers looking for to abort pregnancies absent from states with rigid legislation, the report extra.

The US Supreme Court docket appears set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, in accordance to a leaked first draft greater part opinion printed by Politico on Monday. 

A JPMorgan spokesperson declined to remark on the report. Spokespeople from Goldman Sachs did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for remark.

Other providers which include Levi Strauss and Amazon have pledged to give related assist to their US staff who need to have to travel out of states like Texas and Oklahoma that have limited entry to abortion services.

In March, Citigroup started masking travel fees for workers who go out of state for abortions because of freshly enacted constraints in Texas and other spots, becoming the very first big US lender to make that determination.