Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and more than 180 other business executives took out a full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday urging companies to stand up for abortion rights.
Hey, I have an idea, oh, Lords of the Universe. If you really care, how about not setting up PACs and Super-PACs that support Republican candidates? Oh, that’s right, because what you really care about are your precious tax cuts.
I guess I’ll believe it when you support the Democratic candidate for President and Democrats in the Senate races.
I guess these CEOs must be talking to the GOPers because not only should it be bad for business, upward mobility and healthcare equality for their female workers, but if they were really being honest with the public, these laws are also undeniably reprehensible as a moral issue and developed from ignorant unscientific sources as well. So its not just against their values in the business community to make money and sustain a workforce. Its also bad public policy because its based on bogus notions of when life begins…but apparently that’s a bridge too far.
Electrical activity in a blastocyst smaller than the head of a pin isn’t a fucking heartbeat.
Support to defeat the people that come up with these heinous bills and who end up passing them would be a better use of their money if you ask me.
I wonder if all these CEOs understand that it’s not just abortion bans that are/should be bad for business, but in Alabama and other states rapists that also cause a pregnancy can have parental custody of the resulting child. Which means the victim is legally tied to her rapists by law.
There are no words to describe what I feel after reading that.
They don’t really care. They do care about boycotts of their products when they do business with anti-abortion states. (It also explains why we get a little push-back from some GOPers vs. some of the more abhorrent of these laws - follow the money…)
Bodily autonomy? Who cares? Maternal health? Wut? Privacy in making your own health care decisions? Isn’t that HIPPA or something? By all means, let’s stop banning abortion because it’s bad for business.
I get they are trying to do the right thing here, but the notion that “good for business” is a consideration, when it comes to abortion bans is abhorrent.
The will of the voters has become so irrelevant that the only real influence on policy comes from corporations and super-wealthy people making threats.
Cue the boycotts of these companies in 3…2…1…
I am pro-choice but this letter is damn weird wording.
This is such BS. If you are concerned donate to Democratic candidates. Otherwise, this is just pathetic attempt at SJM (social justice marketing).
I think Jack Dorsey and the CEOs (soon to be a high-tech rock band) are omitting from this statememt one of their primary concerns, which is the effect of rolling boycotts and other sanctions from liberal states. Another concern is high-tech employees balking at the prospect of transferring into jobs that might be offered in Confederate states under laws like these.