{"id":204579,"date":"2019-06-13T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204579"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:41:35","slug":"corporate-misogyny-ceos-banning-abortion-bad-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/corporate-misogyny-ceos-banning-abortion-bad-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate misogyny: Nearly 200 CEOs claim banning abortion is bad for business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In response to Alabama’s new heartbeat law<\/a>, which bans abortion<\/a> after a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, and similar laws recently passed in numerous other states, a group of CEOs has signed on to a full-page ad in the New York Times claiming that restricting abortion is\u00a0“bad for business.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Over 180 CEOs, including Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, signed the letter, titled “Don’t Ban Equality,” which called on other companies to stand in support of abortion. “Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence, and economic stability of our employees and customers,” the letter read. “Simply put, it goes against our values, and is bad for business. It impairs our ability to build diverse and inclusive workplace pipelines, recruit top talent across the states, and protect the well-being of all the people who keep our business thriving day in and day out.”<\/p>\n

The misogynistic take was immediately criticized by pro-lifers, but one notable reply came from Rev. William Dailey, director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason, in which he cut right to the heart of the issue:<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: Area CEOs prefer abortion to maternity leave, call it feminism.<\/p>\n

\u2014 William Dailey, CSC (@wrdcsc) June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n