Texas-based insurance coverage supplier affords to pay for workers' beginning prices

One Texas-based insurance coverage firm has dedicated to paying the medical prices for workers who select to have kids in wake of the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade final Friday.

Buffer Insurance coverage, primarily based out of Southlake, Texas, introduced it might present maternity and paternity paid go away for workers, along with serving to cowl medical prices associated to giving beginning and adopting kids.

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"Secular corporations are paying for the journey prices for workers to abort infants out-of-state," the corporate wrote on Fb Monday. "At this time we're asserting that Buffer pays for prices for our workers who beginning infants."

The corporate, which affords medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, and life insurance coverage, amongst different providers, additionally acknowledged it might pay for the "prices related" with the adoption of a brand new child for workers.

The announcement comes as a number of corporations vowed to cowl workers' prices of abortion-related journey, together with Walt Disney Firm, JPMorgan Chase, Netflix, Dick's Sporting Items, and extra.

Netflix mentioned it might provide a $10,000 lifetime allowance per worker for abortion-related journey, along with offering journey advantages associated to most cancers remedy, gender reassignment surgical procedure, and transplants.

Buffer didn't specify which actual medical prices it might cowl below its new insurance policies for workers, however the firm mentioned it had "ready-to-use" insurance policies that employers might add to their worker handbooks.

The Washington Examiner has reached out to Buffer Insurance coverage for remark.