Walmart expands abortion coverage for its employees in the wake of Roe v Wade decision

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: CNBC

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Walmart expands abortion coverage for its employees in the wake of Roe v Wade decision

PUBLISHED FRI, AUG 19 2022 * 12:43 PM EDT * UPDATED 16 MIN AGO

Melissa Repko
@MELISSA_REPKO
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KEY POINTS
-- Walmart on Friday told employees that it will expand abortion and related travel coverage, according to an internal memo.
-- Effective immediately, Walmart’s health-care plans will cover abortion “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability.”
-- Walmart is the nation’s largest private employer with about 1.6 million employees.

Walmart on Friday told employees that it will expand abortion and related travel coverage, according to an internal memo. The change comes about two months after the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to access the procedure. ... Effective immediately, Walmart’s health-care plans will cover abortion “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability,” according to the memo to employees, which was reviewed by CNBC.

Employees and their family members who are insured through Walmart will also have travel costs covered, if they cannot access a legal abortion within 100 miles of their location, according to the email, which was sent by Walmart’s chief people officer, Donna Morris.

Walmart is the nation’s largest private employer with about 1.6 million employees and is headquartered in Arkansas, where strict abortion limits have already gone into effect. The company’s health-care expansion comes months after Target, Apple and others broadened or reaffirmed abortion coverage. Still, Walmart’s policy decision is symbolic: The retailer’s more than 4,700 stores are located in small towns and larger cities alike, with about 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of a location.

Last month, the company’s CEO, Doug McMillon, sent an employee-wide email saying that Walmart was “working thoughtfully and diligently to figure out the best path forward” after the Supreme Court decision. Walmart at the time didn’t say what changes the company was considering.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/19/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees-after-roe-v-wade.html

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Walmart Expands Abortion Coverage For Employees
August 19, 2022

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/08/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-for-employees/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. But if you willingly had sex, got pregnant, and don't want to be, you're still SOL.

Because that's your punishment for having a good ol' time without intending to do the godly thing and trying to procreate.

Also, Walmart will keep filling campaign coffers of Republican politicians who would gladly pass laws to force pregnant10-year-old rape victims to carry to term even if it kills them.

[Hortensis]

9. :) I'm assuming you don't really think Walmart is failing a duty

to assume all responsibility for their employees' "good ol' times."

Hmmm, wonder what the statistical correlation is between adult un/inadequately protected sex and not bothering to vote and getting us all, not just themselves, in this -- temporary! -- reproductive pickle. 100M adults didn't bother to vote in 2016, and business is picking up at least some of the cost of their fecklessness -- and passing their costs on to everyone of course.

I agree this is an especially loud and meaningful statement coming from Walmart. Our winter place in Florida is "lost" with a few other little shacks in rural/wilderness wetlands, but nevertheless, there's a Walmart within roughly 10 miles east, west, north, and south of us. Four of them!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. Wal-Mart is discriminating against women who wish to end a pregnancy that wasn't forced on

Them and may actuallty not kill them.

[Hortensis]

11. Guess the OP should be changed: Walmart VICTIMIZES healthy employees

by expanding abortion coverage for those with pregnancy-related health risks.

That IS one way of looking at it. Everything good that anyone does discriminates against everyone who isn't in the benefited group. And the sheeple imagine these actions are good and call for more and more discrimination. Oh, my people!

[PA_jen]

2. Yeah, Walmart is doing"the Right thing" but when you look at the employment

practice of Walmart -low wages making sure very little employees get full 40 hours a week. It is cheaper for Walmart to help with abortion then to deal with pregnant employees who need some sort of maternity leave and chance of losing an employee willing to work for such low wages.

Where is Walmart Lobbing group? Why aren't handing money over to Republicans to encourage them to vote for a law that would make ROE v Wade law of the land?

No I can't be fully happy with all these groups helping people to get abortions when they could be doing so much more with their Lobby groups to get actual protection for Female reproductive rights.


I am ready for the tongue lashing but it is my honest opinion.

[Montauk6]

3. A bit surprising...

Aren't the owners a bit on the freeper end? Or am I confusing my moguls?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. I think the Walton family is into whatever helps Walmart make money.

Along the way, they've thrown a lot of money at northwest Arkansas.

They're not afraid to fund the occasional art museum or educational program.

I suspect there's a nice quality of life in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Full disclosure: I do not own any Walmart stock, other than through an index fund.

[P-Nutt]

4. In An Effort To Distract From

The rumored 400 stores that will soon be shut down.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Only for employees with health insurance through Walmart.

And they deliberately limit employee hours for many positions to prevent having to pay any benefits at all, including health insurance. Walmart attracts a lot of older workers who need to supplement their income, and those workers will cost them nothing. As a percentage of Walmart’s total workforce, the number of workers affected may be fairly small. But everything helps with the Republican Taliban on the march.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. So the 70-year-old greeters will not be able to take time off for their abortions.

Don't pay any attention to me. I'm on about my fifth glass of Chardonnay.

[Lonestarblue]

8. I'm about ready to join you. Cheers and a votre sante!