Uber, Lyft Abortion Travel Pledges Omit Most of Their Workforces

Lyft Inc., Uber Technologies Inc., and DoorDash Inc.‘s pledges to cover employees’ abortion travel stops short of including the thousands of drivers, shoppers, and delivery staff who make up the majority of their workforce.

Gig economy companies, some even before the Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion protections, said they’d help pregnant workers travel to get the procedure as an employee benefit.

But that pledge excludes drivers—who generally don’t receive health insurance because the companies classify them as independent contractors. Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber told Bloomberg Law that they’ll only cover abortion travel for employees. TaskRabbit, which said in ...