An aerial view of Apple Park is seen in Cupertino, California, the United States, on Oct. 28, 2021.
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Apple employees can use their company benefits to travel out of state for medical care, the company confirmed Friday. The benefit has been available to employees for more than 10 years, the company said.
The declaration comes as corporations across the country, including Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, pledge to pay female employees to travel for abortions if they are in states where it is prohibited following the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday. to overturn Roe v. Wade. roll back the federal right to get an abortion.
“As we said before, we support the rights of our employees to make their own decisions regarding their reproductive health. For more than a decade, Apple’s comprehensive benefits have enabled our employees to travel out of state for medical care if necessary.” it is not available in its home state,” an Apple spokesperson told CNBC.
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In September, Apple said in an internal memo that it was monitoring legal proceedings over abortion laws in Texas, saying at the time that the company’s benefits give employees the ability to get out-of-state health care if they’re not. available in your home state. .
Furthermore, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade has highlighted health apps and concerns about the data they collect, such as menstrual cycle tracking, which some advocates say could be used to prosecute people seeking abortions in states where it’s illegal.
Apple’s Health app has a cycle tracking feature, and if the data is uploaded to Apple’s servers for backup and the user has two-factor authentication turned on, then it’s encrypted, which means that Apple cannot read the data.
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