Recently a collegue just up front told everyone at work she took a few days off to have an abortion. I was stunned but I think she set a great example. No one gave her s**t, just al lot of empathy. (I am not living in the USA obviously.)

You don't have to tell your boss. Like any medical procedure, you'd file paperwork with insurance. Or maybe HR. And those people are NOT allowed to tell anyone your medical information. So your boss would never need to know.

They'd rather pay for your travel and care for a few days than pay for your maternity leave.

Why should we keep treating the things women go thru as shameful? So we should all hide our experiences because "Becky in accounting" is an a*****e. Also how do you gossip about something that everyone knows? You'd be the a*****e if you allowed Becky to talk s**t. It's as simple as saying "hey.. how about you stop being an a*****e & not gossip about people?" That's a way better solution than expecting women to feel shameful about their choices.

Well, I can kinda see how you might have to tell your boss if you need to be away for a few days to have it, especially if you don't have any vacation days or sick days left and need to explain the urgency.

Anyone who needs the time off work! Why does all this shame have to sit with the woman?

I'm sure that the boss would rather hear that you are being a responsable person, who has made the decision to have an abortion, as you are not at a point in your life where you are mentally and financially capable enough to want to raise a child.

Still better than a pregnancy and birth you don't want.

It would have to be either HIPAA confidential or set up as an outside anonymous funding that employees can access, to keep the gossips TF out of it.

This information would still be considered private information and would only be submitted through the benefits department and insurance if applicable. If this information is shared, someone needs to get fired. There is no reason at all for Becky in accounting to know what your medical information entails.

Bingo! Nailed it!

Maybe the woman who's pregnant but has found out that carrying her baby to term will probably kill her? Or the woman who's baby isn't actually viable and will never live but without an abortion she's forced to carry it to "term" anyway? Or the woman who was raped and is now pregnant? There are lots of reasons a woman might want an abortion, and she shouldn't have to feel embarrassed or stigmatized about any of them.

You'd rather have an unwanted pregnancy??

They’ll probably have some sort of code, and put a request for a travel expense and not publicly advertise what it’s for? Others might think they’re going on a normal vacation, or some kind of business travel. No one but the manager and the person in HR who pays the expense has to know.

I know young people who live alone in a family home, but always lock the bathroom door like an obsession. (You may recognize yourself in this.)

Good point, I would hope those organisations have already figured that out and have appropriate anonymity procedures in place (after all, they wouldn't want to get sued either).

A gun literally has more rights than women

Texas and others can say they'll charge people, but legally that will be shot down very quickly. States can't charge for violation of their laws when said violation occurs in another state.

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When people started using abortion as birth control . Which costs more a condom , or BCP for that matter, personal responsibility costs absolutely nothing ( if I get hate SBI)

This is the most logical and intelligent comment so far!

We know. But it takes time to mend a wound, and sometimes the first thing to do is put on a plaster while you work to heal it.

Hobby Lobby is too based to be giving people abortion money