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- <text id=90TT1097>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Social Issues
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- SOCIAL ISSUES
- Moral Battle In the Office
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Big business usually does its best to avoid getting into hot
- controversies. But several companies are getting entangled in
- one of the most emotional issues of all: abortion. AT&T has
- become embroiled because of its annual donations to Planned
- Parenthood, which amounted to $50,000 last year. The company
- decided in March to stop funding the group, after 25 years of
- support, because the nonprofit group's "political advocacy" of
- abortion had grown. But at AT&T's annual meeting in Los Angeles
- last week, antiabortion shareholders lost a resolution that
- would have forbidden the telecommunications giant to give money
- to organizations "that endorse, counsel or perform abortions."
- </p>
- <p> When the National Conference of Catholic Bishops hired the
- public relations firm Hill & Knowlton in early April to help
- launch an antiabortion campaign, many of the company's
- employees expressed outrage. More than a third of the 400
- workers in its New York City offices signed a protest petition,
- and at least one client has reportedly canceled its account.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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