SF-Based Yelp Offers To Pay Travel Fees For Its Oklahoma Employees Seeking Abortions

By Katie Nielsen, CBS San Francisco

April 13, 2022

After Oklahoma’s governor signed into law a bill that basically bans all abortions in the state, San Francisco-based tech company, Yelp, announced it will pay for its employees to travel out of state for services.

“We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country,” said Republican Governor Kevin Stitt as he signed into law one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. It says an abortion can only be performed when it is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman, and any doctor who violates the law could be charged with a felony and sent to prison for 10 years.

Now, Yelp is offering to pay travel expenses for any of its approximately 200 employees in Oklahoma to go out of state to terminate a pregnancy.

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