Supporters of Planned Parenthood Expected to do Penance

Vanity ^ | 1/14/2008 | pgyanke

[pgyanke]

When Life Decisions International put out their most recent list of sponsors of Planned Parenthood, my company was on the list. In fact, my company has been on their boycott list since the mid-1990s.

I recently confronted the higher-ups of my company on this and was told that our most recent donation was due to a matching grant in 2004. We haven't donated since and no longer get involved in controversial issues. This new list came out after this conversation, so I went back to LDI to get information I could take back to the higher-ups. I wanted to show them that we do indeed continue to support Planned Parenthood.

There is no information to support LDI's position. They received a letter from my company in 2004 saying the same thing I was told. They can point to no further donations since then. In fact, before the 2004 donation by a local branch office, our last donation was 1999. Then why are we still on the list?

According to "Ken", Douglas Scott (LDI President) believes that it's not enough for a company to cease its support for planned parenthood, it has to send a letter repudiating the organization entirely.

Now, you may agree with this approach--but consider what is the long-term goal. The goal is to choke off the funding of Planned Parenthood (and the abortion industry in general). Large companies have employees with diverse opinions on this matter... and their customers do as well. By denouncing Planned Parenthood outright, they will alienate these employees and customers. While they are complying with the request to cease support, they would be put at significant business disadvantage against those who haven't shown up on the list before.

I would go so far as to say, LDI's hardline stance is encouraging continued support for Planned Parenthood. Why should a company cease its support at all? If the company stops the funding, they will still show up on the boycott list unless they are willing to alienate significant portions of their employees and customers.

This isn't good business and I think it's too hard of a line to take to meet the long-term goal. Perhaps LDI can be persuaded to at least acknowledge those who haven't made a donation in years rather than trashing companies' reputations over a lack of penance.

[Cicero]

There may be a few creepy corporations who do this, in which case they need to be identified and punished. But you still have to give the benefit of the doubt to any corporation that stops supporting Planned Parenthood, UNLESS they go back on their promise.

The basic principle of moving people to change their behavior is to trust them until they prove otherwise. And if they do prove otherwise, then come down on them twice as hard. But not before then.

[Paleo Conservative]

Planned Parenthood is merely one head of the Zero Population Growth hydra. ZPG is beinhg resisted by Republicans and supported by Democrats and this is the entire foundation of the difference between the Parties such as it i

The DemocRATS just want ZPG for oppressive white people.

[RightWhale]

Not at all. They are also World Bank that convinced China on the one child plan.

[Paleo Conservative]

But within the US, the DemocRATS don’t seem to mind it if illegal immigrants invade and have numerous offspring in order to change the political balance within states.

[RightWhale]

Consistency is not required in socialism. They can take other concepts and mash them all together until they are an unidentifiable gray goo, call it Democrat Party, and make money running elections.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm

[pgyanke]

I’m not at corporate so my information is second-hand, at best. What I was told by my corporate was consistent with the information provided by LDI. I’m only passing on what I learned in direct communication on our particular issue.

[RobbyS]

Then if someone at corporate is a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood—him or his WIFE—then they would be inclined to look away if some offices continued to give. Planned Parenthood, after all, enjoys the zealous support of much of the upper middle-class. This abortion thing involves class warfare, with the liberal elite on one side, the many of the rest of us on the other.

[Lesforlife]

I’ve never understood why companies want to shoot
themselves in the foot by donating to “off” future
customers.

[RobbyS]

Probably 80% of the upper-classes are social liberals. I can’t point to any specific study, but I think that on most matters, the elite lean liberal, except on the matter of taxation of their assets.