The nation’s two biggest rideshare companies are both planning to legally support drivers that may be sued under a new Texas law that penalizes anyone who drives a woman to an abortion clinic after six weeks into a pregnancy.
Lyft announced it was setting up a Driver Legal Defense Fund to cover all legal fees for drivers sued under SB8, Texas’s controversial abortion bill that bans the procedure six months into a pregnancy and penalizes anyone who assists in the process.
“Drivers are never responsible for monitoring where their riders go or why,” said Lyft in a release. “This law is incompatible with people’s basic rights to privacy, our community guidelines, the spirit of rideshare, and our values as a company.”
