Access to reproductive health services is an essential part of gender and racial equity—issues companies say they care about.
on the issue. So women’s health advocates are trying to encourage business leaders to speak up based on the relatively new premise that reproductive rights are a workplace issue.
Having access to abortions can allow women to “stay in the workforce, or stay in education so that they can have the degree and the skills that they need to then be able to do the kind of work that they want to do, or to support the economic security of their family,” Goodman explains. In aof nearly 1,000 American women who sought abortions, 40% cited financial reasons as a factor in their decision.
Two-thirds of college-educated workers in the US say the Texas abortion ban, known as SB8, would discourage them from taking a job in the state, according to aof 1,804 adults with college degrees who either hold full-time jobs or are looking for full-time work. The online poll was commissioned by Tara Health Foundation and conducted by public opinion research firm PerryUndem. About half of the respondents they’d consider moving out of state if their own lawmakers passed a ban similar to SB8.
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