Lyft, Uber say they will defend drivers sued under Texas abortion law
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Lyft, Uber say they will defend drivers sued under Texas abortion law
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Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. pledged to pay legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas’ new restrictive abortion law, which threatens to hold anyone who helps a woman obtain the procedure legally liable.
Lyft co-founder and Chief Executive Logan Green on Friday tweeted that the company was creating a Driver Legal Defense Fund to cover 100% of legal fees incurred by drivers sued for transporting women to get abortions, and unveiled a $1 million donation to Planned Parenthood. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi responded on Twitter, saying Uber will also cover legal fees, and thanked Green “for the push.”
“This is an attack on women’s access to health care and their right to choose,” Green wrote on Twitter. He said the Planned Parenthood donation would help ensure that “transportation is never a barrier to health care access” and invited other companies to do the same.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-09-03/lyft-uber-say-they-will-defend-drivers-sued-under-texas-abortion-law
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