Thu Mar 24, 2022 – 10:35 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Recent pro-life bills have tacitly relied on the hassle women encounter in traveling across state lines to obtain an abortion. Timing, costs, and other factors may inhibit their ability to obtain the procedure as they may no longer be able to have abortion within their own state.
This was seen in Texas, where the state’s controversial heartbeat law has apparently prompted an exodus of women seeking abortions in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Louisiana. While Texas has released data on the precipitous drop in abortions since the law’s implementation, it’s unclear how many women have given birth where they otherwise wouldn’t have. Luckily for the left, their corporate allies succeed in securing access where the pro-choice movement falls short.
One of the top investment banks in the world — Citigroup — announced this week that it would fund cross-state travel (airfare, etc.) for employees seeking abortions.
In a public filing, the bank said that “changes in reproductive health-care laws in certain states” had prompted them to “provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources.” Citigroup reportedly has more than 8,500 employees located in Texas, where a court effectively let
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