Starbucks to add abortion journey protection to U.S. health benefits

May 16 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) will reimburse U.S. employees if they must journey greater than 100 miles from their houses to obtain an abortion, in response to a memo despatched to workers on Monday.

The global espresso chain joins Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and a small however growing list of other corporations to offer the benefit as some U.S. states impose tighter restrictions on abortion. learn more .

The difficulty gained urgency after Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Courtroom displaying that a conservative majority of justices supported overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide read more

"Like lots of you, I’m deeply concerned by the draft Supreme Court docket opinion related to the constitutional right to abortion that was first established by Roe v. Wade," wrote Sara Kelly, a human sources government.

The benefit also applies to the dependents of employees, the memo stated.

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Reporting by Hilary Russ Modifying by Chizu Nomiyama

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