Lyft Inc. said it would pay legal fees for any driver sued under Texas’ new restrictive abortion law and announced a $1 million donation to Planned Parenthood.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Logan Green announced Friday the creation of a Driver Legal Defense Fund to cover 100% of legal fees incurred by drivers sued for transporting women to get abortions. Green, in a tweet, also announced the Planned Parenthood donation to ensure that “transportation is never a barrier to health care access” and invited other companies to do the same.
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“This is an attack on women’s access to health care and their right to choose,” Green wrote in the tweet.