U.S. abortion curbs: Fearing business impact, companies speak out

Anastasia Moloney, Reuters
Nov 09, 2021 

U.S. firms look set to face increasing scrutiny over their stance on abortion rights and whether employee healthcare plans are in step with social responsibility statements as abortion curbs are challenged in court, researchers and executives say.

A near-total ban on abortion in Texas and new restrictions on the procedure in other Republican-led states have prompted dozens of firms to wade into the highly charged debate – many speaking out publicly for the first time.

Continued: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/u-s-abortion-curbs-fearing-business-impact-companies-speak-out


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

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/