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Apple employees can use the benefits of their company to travel outside the state to receive medical care, the company confirmed on Friday. The benefit has been available to employees for more than 10 years, the company said.
The statement comes as corporations across the country, including Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, are committed to paying employees to travel to have abortions if they are in states where it is banned following a Supreme Court ruling on Friday. repeal Rowe v. Wade, repeal federal abortion law.
“As we said earlier, we support the rights of our employees to make their own decisions about their reproductive health. “For more than a decade, Apple’s comprehensive benefits have allowed our employees to travel outside the state for medical care if it is so inaccessible in their home state,” an Apple spokesman told CNBC.
In September, Apple said in an inside note that it was monitoring Texas abortion lawsuits and said at the time that the company’s benefits gave employees the opportunity to receive medical care outside the state if it was not available in their state. .
Separately, Rowe’s decision to overturn Wade highlighted health applications and concerns about the data they collect, such as menstrual cycle monitoring, which some advocates say could be used to prosecute people seeking abortions in states where it is illegal.
Apple’s Health app has a loop tracking feature, and if the data is uploaded to Apple’s backup servers and the user has two-factor authentication enabled, then it is encrypted, which means that Apple cannot read the data.
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