A gender equity advocacy group within the Department of Justice has called for administrative time off for staff and their families to travel interstate to have abortions.
The DOJ Gender Equality Network (DOJ GEN) board of directors wrote to government officials on Wednesday (pdf), prompted by the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Citing concern about “restrictive state laws that are already, or may soon be, in effect” in certain states, they asked the DOJ administrators to “mitigate the harm” to federal workers by the possibility of not having abortions available in certain states.
“As an initial step, we ask that the Administration swiftly consider requiring federal agencies to grant administrative leave to cover the time it takes an employee, or an employee’s family member, to travel to another state to obtain reproductive healthcare services not available in their own state due to restrictive laws,” the letter’s authors wrote….
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