businesses and abortion

By Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
June 12, 2023

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court removed women's nationwide right to end their pregnancies, few U.S. firms are willing to publicly support abortion, and many prefer to stay silent.

The overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that established the constitutional right to access abortion gave states a free rein to ban terminations. Since the June 24 verdict last year, about a dozen Republican-led states have banned abortion almost entirely, leaving millions of women without access to nearby clinics.

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More Companies Are Openly Supporting Abortion Rights. That May Be Controversial, But It’s Also Good Business

By Jess McHugh
November 8, 2019

For years, Mikkel Svane drove the same route to drop his kids off at school every day. It took him down Valencia Street in the heart of San Francisco, past a Planned Parenthood clinic. And almost every day, he would pass protesters holding pictures of torture and violence, alongside religious imagery. He’d try to distract his kids, not knowing how to explain why these “obsessed people” came to be standing in front of a health clinic, holding pictures of the Holocaust.

The CEO moved to San Francisco from his native Denmark with his customer service software company Zendesk, and he was surprised to encounter such fierce protest on this issue in a place like San Francisco in 2019. In Denmark, abortion has been settled law since the 1970s, and it does not continue to provoke the kind of violent debate that still rages in the U.S.

Continued: https://fortune.com/2019/11/08/companies-that-openly-support-abortion-access/

A year after Roe v. Wade, how have U.S. firms reacted?

USA – More Companies Are Openly Supporting Abortion Rights. That May Be Controversial, But It’s Also Good Business