More than 650 Google employees demand more from the tech giant when it comes to abortion.
According to a petition sent to management this week, Google staff said the company would provide abortion benefits to contractors and stop donating to anti-abortion politicians. , hopes to better protect users from misinformation and police requests related to abortion.
The petition, seen by Reuters, addresses concerns across the United States since a June Supreme Court rulingended her 50-year abortion rights in the United States. It reflects.
Google declined to comment on the petition organized by the Alphabet Workers Union group.
Many companies, including Google, have policies in place to help employees seeking abortions. Google employees want these policies to include temporary staff and contractors to access reimbursement for travel to states where the procedure is legal.
Alejandra Beatty, her technical her program manager at Google's healthcare subsidiary Verily and co-president of the petition, said thousands of workers are in states restricting abortion. I'm assuming you live.
Google's parent company Alphabet, which employs more than 174,000 of her employees worldwide, sets some standards but completely dictates policies for outside vendors. says it can't be done.
Additionally, the petition states that Alphabet should not direct political contributions to groups or candidates campaigning to restrict access to abortion.
The petition states that if a user searches for abortion on Google, "never be saved, handed over to law enforcement, or treated as a crime, We also address the concern that
In July, Google announced that users would be removing location data displayed when visiting an abortion clinic due to privacy concerns. It also said it would continue to resist government requests for inappropriate or overly broad data without mentioning abortion.
Workers also try to discourage people from having abortions. Agreeing with an earlier request by US lawmakers to ask Google to remove search results foremergency pregnancy centers. Google says it will remove reported misleading results.
Beatty said Alphabet should view reproductive rights protection as an existential battle, like Covid-19, and that the Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee Product Change should be convened.
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