MasterCard, Starbucks to cover abortion travel costs for employees

MasterCard and Starbucks have joined a growing list of companies to say they'll help pay for employees to travel for abortions if the procedure is not available where they live.

"We will continue to offer employees access to the same health care that is available today wherever they live," a spokesperson for MasterCard stated in an email, confirming a report by Bloomberg News. 

That includes family planning and reproductive benefits, from fertility treatments to surrogacy and adoption services, pregnancy prevention including vasectomy coverage and access to contraception and pregnancy termination," Purchase, New York-based MasterCard told employees in a memo cited by Bloomberg.