Companies used to want to keep their politics private and usually tried to hide any dollars they spent on it.
But when it comes to politics and “woke” capitalism Disney has completely changed the game.
And now, they’ve made a huge announcement about their response to the SCOTUS abortion ruling.
Disney blew up the traditional model of companies at least trying to appear politically neutral when it comes to politics.
Now, the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 ruling to reverse Roe v. Wade and devolve abortion laws to the states has triggered Disney to make a huge announcement.
They’re among the many corporations that have announced that they would be paying women effectively to kill babies in order to keep them employed.
Disney, one of the wokest major corporations, sent employees an email that read, “We recognize the impact that today’s Supreme Court ruling could have on many Americans and understand that some of you may have concerns about what this might mean for you and your families, as medical and family planning decisions are deeply personal.”
Disney is accepting the premise that abortion falls under the dubious right-to-privacy argument that Roe hinged on.
Individual states can decide that taking the life of a baby is not a privacy concern.
The Disney email continued, “Please know that our company remains committed to removing barriers and providing comprehensive access to quality and affordable care for all of our employees, cast members and their families, including family planning and reproductive care, no matter where they live. In fact, we have processes in place so that an employee who may be unable to access care in one location has affordable coverage for receiving similar levels of care in another location. This travel benefit covers medical situations related to cancer treatments, transplants, rare disease treatment and family planning (including pregnancy-related decisions).”
In other words, Disney employees in red states can get flown out to abortion tourism destinations like New York or California and be back at work first thing Monday morning.
Considering Joe Biden so bungled the economy, companies are making the excuse that they almost have no option – they can’t find temp workers to fill the void left by pregnant employees.
But instead of addressing the root problem by demanding the Biden administration reverse course on its economy-killing agenda, they’re spending their customers’ dollars to help kill babies.
It goes far beyond just virtue signaling their woke credentials.
And while Democrats have tried to fear-monger by saying that women could be charged with murder or charged with a crime for crossing state lines to seek an abortion, this is not true.
However some states may be able to levy conspiracy charges against the corporations that help facilitate abortions in contravention of state law.
Until that happens – or they start to see massive waves of customers abandoning them – these companies’ virtue-signaling about paid abortions is a win-win for them.
They get to avoid the wrath of the unhinged Left while ducking the costs of dealing with a pregnant employee.
Culture Watch News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.