CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto September 6, 2021 13:48:00
The nation's two largest ride share companies, lyft and uber, are both pushing back against texas's new restrictive abortion law that effectively bans abortions after six weeks and gives private citizens the right to file civil lawsuits against anyone considered to be aiding it an abortion. that would include anyone who drives a woman to a medical center, for example. now lyft and uber say they will cover the legal fees of drivers who might face any lawsuits for that. lyft has also donated a million dollars to planned parenthood in the wake of this. the company's cofounder sent a letter to emp...