{"id":223077,"date":"2020-05-05T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=223077"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:50:31","slug":"zoom-founder-2019-pro-life-laws-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/zoom-founder-2019-pro-life-laws-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell: Zoom founder signed letter calling pro-life laws ‘bad for business’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last June, leaders from over 180 U.S. companies signed<\/a> on to a letter<\/a> printed as a full-page ad in the New York Times, titled,\u00a0“Don’t Ban Equality.<\/a>” This campaign was reportedly formed “in response to an alarming trend of bans passing in states across the country that restrict access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including abortion.” The campaign was to be a statement against laws protecting preborn children, with these businesses stating that “these bans go against their company values and negatively affect efforts to promote equality in the workplace, putting businesses, communities and the economy at risk.”<\/p>\n

The signers purported to represent “more than 129,000 workers”\u00a0taking a stand “against policies that hinder people\u2019s health, independence and ability to fully succeed in the workplace.” And at the time, one of the businesses signed on to the letter wasn’t a household name — but today, nearly a year later, Eric Yuan’s video conferencing platform Zoom is being used by countless households and businesses, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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These\u00a0180+ business leaders signed their support for unfettered abortion access, as the letter was organized by “Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NARAL Pro-Choice America, The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Reproductive Rights.”\u00a0In a press release on June 10th<\/a>\u00a0of 2019, Planned Parenthood cheered the “strong uptick in companies wanting to respond to recent attacks on reproductive health and rights,” declaring that “restricting reproductive rights, including access to abortion, goes against the values of their companies and hinders efforts to promote equality in the workplace, putting their businesses, communities and the U.S. economy at risk.” Amazingly, the tone-deaf letter quite literally appeared to argue for putting profits before preborn human beings.<\/p>\n