Businesses talk about the importance of family but often treat children as either a burden to be discarded or as optional luxury goods.
Big business has a baby problem. Specifically, many of America’s largest corporations have a problem with babies and therefore with working parents — especially working mothers.
Alexandra DeSanctis and I recently published a report for the Ethics and Public Policy Center documenting the family policies of the Fortune 100. We found that about half of these corporate behemoths champion abortion for their employees; after the Dobbs decision, they made a point of announcing that their employee health care plans will cover abortion tourism for workers who live in states that restrict ending human lives in utero.
No doubt many more companies quietly cover the costs of travel for abortion as part of standardized health care plans. But the corporations touting abortion tourism as a major benefit are sending a message to their employees: Babies are hazardous to your lifestyle, your career, and our bottom line.
Such enthusiastic corporate support for abortion suggests a C-suite culture that would rather pay for abortions than cover the costs of workers having babies. There is the implicit premise that babies are a potential problem to be managed rather than persons to be welcomed and that workers (especially women) need to carefully time having babies to optimize their careers (and, of course, the company’s profits). […]
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