South Dakota Gov. Christy Noem spoke about the state’s trigger law and other abortion crackdowns after the landmark Supreme Court ruling on “Fox Business Tonight.”
Buffer Insurance condemned the reaction of “secular” companies to the end of Roe v. Wade, promising instead to support employees who become pregnant and even cover childbirth expenses.
The Texas-based company has pledged to offer maternity and paternity leave to employees who have children, as well as cover the costs of their employees’ births. The company also promised to help employees who want to adopt children.
“Secular companies pay travel expenses for employees to abort babies out of state,” Buffer wrote in a Facebook post. “Today we’re announcing that Buffer will pay the expenses of our employees having babies.”
“Employers: If you’d like to learn how you can provide these benefits to your employees, let us know. We have ready-to-use policies that you can add to your employee handbooks,” the company continued.
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The move comes after many companies condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe. Some have gone so far as to cover the costs of their female employees working in Republican-controlled states who have to cross state lines to get an abortion.
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Apple, Disney, Patagonia, Microsoft and Tesla are just some of the companies that have pledged to help their employees circumvent abortion bans.
Abortion has an unclear legal status in Texas, where Buffer is based. The state has an abortion trigger law that would ban the vast majority of the procedures, but it doesn’t take effect until 30 days after the Supreme Court issues its decision overturning Roe. The court announced its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson in late June, but is not expected to issue a formal ruling until late July.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to temporarily ban abortions through a pre-Roe law on the Texas books. A judge temporarily blocked enforcement of that law last week, following a lawsuit by the ACLU that argued the law had been struck down and was unenforceable.
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