Last June, leaders from over 180 U.S. companies signed on to a letter printed as a full-page ad in the New York Times, titled, “Don’t Ban Equality.” This campaign was reportedly formed “in response to an alarming trend of bans passing in states across the country that restrict access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including abortion.” The campaign was to be a statement against laws protecting preborn children, with these businesses stating that “these bans go against their company values and negatively affect efforts to promote equality in the workplace, putting businesses, communities and the economy at risk.”
The signers purported to represent “more than 129,000 workers” taking a stand “against policies that hinder people’s health, independence and ability to fully succeed in the workplace.” And at the time, one of the businesses signed on to the letter wasn’t a household name — but today, nearly a year later, Eric Yuan’s video conferencing platform Zoom is being used by countless households and businesses, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amazingly, the tone-deaf letter quite literally appeared to argue for putting profits before preborn human beings.
The letter from 2019, which Zoom founder Yuan signed, read (emphasis added):
Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence and economic stability of our employees and customers. Simply put, it goes against our values and is bad for business. It impairs our ability to build diverse and inclusive workforce pipelines, recruit top talent across the states, and protect the well-being of all the people who keep our businesses thriving day in and out. The future of gender equality hangs in the balance, putting our families, communities, businesses and the economy at risk.
In other words, these businesses — including Zoom — believe abortion is good for their bottom line.
Full story at Live Action.
Thanks for posting that. We’ll look at alternatives for our Bible studies and other online gatherings until we can again meet in person. I hope Catholic and other Christian schools leave Zoom behind (unless they change their public policy position).
Not that Google or Skype (Microsoft) are pro-life either.
Thanks for the information, We will look for other ways of having our meetings . Being a member of the Knights of Columbus we can’t be part of murder.
Let me get this straight, Zoom publishes a letter begging people to understand and not ban equality, and in the minds of Christians this is not a reason to see if they understand the counter arguments and reflect on their own arguments as to why they want abortion banned, but a reason to ban the company. Not because Zoom funds abortions, but because they dare use their freedom of speech to say anything in defence of women that might want it. My hands drop powerless every time I think of trying to argue with or present any research to these people. They are closed-minded. They are bullies on the path to fairness and to blinded by faith to realize it. :| :'(
Arthur, if your mother would have chose her “health” as you people are defining abortion, you would have been just some pieces of bones in a trash bin now…. that wouldn’t have worked out for well your business I suppose…
Does anyone know if Zoom Funds are being used to fund Abortion?
Yes, Zoom is actually a government agency now ever since Obama became the majority shareholder. This was right around when he had the engineered samples of Covid released to the public and wanted to capitalize on the success of the virus. They are using Zoom’s profits to not only fund abortion, but make them mandatory in places like California, Seattle, and Canada.