Companies should support adoption, not abortion

This phenomenon is maybe clearest in the tech industry, where I work. Companies like Apple and Amazon were founded by people who were the result of unplanned pregnancies. Fortunately, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos entered the world—and transformed it. If for no other reason than pure self-interest, companies should want to expand the pool of human potential, not shrink it.

I doubt most companies that are now paying employees to abort their babies will abandon their policy, though I wish they would. But they should at least consider a corresponding policy that promotes adoption, along the lines of what my company is doing. Doing so would send a message of inclusion and empowerment to employees who may want to continue their pregnancy but need some extra support. It would also help depoliticize the corporate environment by showing that companies aren’t completely beholden to the abortion lobby. Surely that’s a positive thing in this era of political and consumer backlash.

Supporting adoption is good for business, in the short and long term. That fact alone should be enough to convince corporate America to throw its financial weight behind helping pregnant team members choose life. If they refuse, they’ll hurt themselves and their employees, to say nothing of the countless lives they’ll cut short.