I didn't see it as deceptive or in bad form, but rather as my opinion (which is why it was in parentheticals in the title) after reading about David Packard and what he did while at HP with HP money, at least until 1993 when he was still Chairman of the Board. (coincidentally the same year that Clinton ordered the FDA to re-evaluate RU-486 for the US... ) I have yet to understand why he is described as having been a "life-long" Republican.
I think he did it with his own money, which HP paid him.
There are plenty of companies out there which are blatantly into the culture of death and are proud of it, without knocking a company just because their founder was a kook.
Bill Gates has given plenty of money to "third world family planning" (including abortion) and similar initiatives, so don't buy Microsoft. Warren Buffett has too, so don't buy GEICO insurance or Fruit of the Loom clothing (both owned by Berkshire Hathaway). The Ford Foundation (not FoMoCo) has, too, so don't buy a Ford automobile. And so on.
You have to either pick your battles carefully or live like the Amish do, it seems.
There's plenty of precedent -- going back at least as far as T. Roosevelt -- for Republicans backing eugenics, population control, and abortion. JUstice Blackmun was a Nixon appointee, remember, and it was Nixon who had Kissinger produce the notorious National Security Memorandum proclaiming that "Abortion is vital to the solution." And don't forget that Bush 41 was heavily into pop control in the 70s, as a big wheel with Planned Parenthood. The GOP is lousy with deathist politicians.