Apple—Apple announced employee health benefits would cover abortion travel costs after Texas SB-8

Sep 1, 2021

In September 2021, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to 160,000 employees that the company's health insurance would cover travel costs for out-of-state medical care including abortion, in response to Texas's restrictive abortion law SB-8. Apple stated: 'We support our employees' rights to make their own decisions regarding their reproductive health.'

Scoring Impact

Topic	Direction	Relevance	Contribution
Reproductive Rights	+toward	primary	+1.00
Worker Rights	+toward	secondary	+0.50
Overall incident score =			+0.375

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.50)

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