Wake Up to Woke Corporations They Are Costing You Money
A coordinated movement by Planned Parenthood, ACLU, The Center for Reproductive Rights, and similar organizations, have successfully conducted a campaign to pressure corporations into using shareholder money to promote abortion. While social liberals have failed to implement their agendas through the democratic process, they have traditionally used, for the last 50 years, the liberal courts for rulings in their favor. Now that the Supreme Court has swung to the conservative side and Roe and Casey are in jeopardy of being overturned, the left has gone to plan B. Plan B is not new, similar tactics were used quite successfully by the "Reverends"Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to shake down large corporations into opening up their purse strings to do their bidding or else.
Citigroup was the first to offer a "reproductive healthcare policy" to help circumvent the Texas Heartbeat Bill. The policy provides transportation and lodging to anyone that needs to cross state lines to have an abortion. The latest to succumb to this abortion scam is Yelp. Both Yelp and Citigroup are publically traded on the NYSE and are using shareholders money to implement a social agenda. Yelp now adds its' name to 50 other companies lobbying against the Texas law along with, Citigroup, Lyft, Ben and Jerry's and Reddit. In 2019, more than 200 corporate giants, Zoom. Go Fund Me and Square signed a statement advocating for "reproductive healthcare", asserting that restrictions on abortion are bad for the economy and "bad for business." Planned Parenthood claims that companies who remain neutral on abortion are hurting their female employees and all women in general.
Woke corporations such as Coca Cola have bullied MLB into moving the All Star game from Atlanta to Denver, because of a voting law they didn't like, and now Disney announced recently that it was going to fight to repeal The Parents Right Act that was signed into Florida Law. Big asset managers like BlackRock use their economic sway with companies to force them to comply with woke agendas. In Larry Fink's ( Fink is the fearless leader of BlackRock) 2022 Annual Letter to CEO's he wrote, "Stakeholder capitalism is not about politics. It is not social or ideological agenda. It is not 'woke.' It is capitalism, driven by mutually beneficial relationships between you and the employees, customers, suppliers, and communities your company relies on to prosper. This is the power of capitalism." Sure, he harnesses the power of capitalism to do exactly what he thinks you should be doing, just like Coca Cola, Google, The Ford Foundation, Starbucks, Pfizer, Eli Lilly , Johnson and Johnson and of course BlackRock, did to protest the Georgia Voting Rights Law and pressured MLB to take away the All Star Game from Atlanta,. The city and it's businesses lost millions in taxes and revenue. That's Stakeholder capitalism? Not for Atlanta it wasn't.
As maddening as this is, we need to wake up to the "woke" and fight back like Florida has done with Disney. We are consumers, investors and we are the majority, we vote and we can be more vocal than the left. We need to be wise where we invest our dollars, whose services we use, and what we purchase. Just a reminder to Yelp, CitiCorp, Ben and Jerry's and all their friends, Abortion is not health care. You are aiding and abetting the extermination of your future customer base. How smart is that?