Live Action’s satirical video “Pro-Choice Bosses” series made a significant impression on viewers last week for the spot-on accuracy of how pro-abortion businesses are behaving following the end of Roe v. Wade. The impact of the videos is still being felt, and many viewers are speaking out to share their own stories of pregnancy and motherhood discrimination as well as the poor treatment they have faced in the workplace. (Employment discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is federally illegal.)
Pro-Choice Bosses: A Generous Offer to Our Pregnant Employees
The first video of the two-part series exposed the efforts pro-choice companies are taking to virtue signal to the world that they support so-called reproductive rights. A pregnant employee learns that her boss has a generous offer to fly her anywhere in the country and pay for her hotel and dining so that she can have an abortion and get back to work. It’s a lot cheaper to cover these costs than to pay for a woman to take maternity leave.
Pro-Choice Bosses: Hire NBD (Not Baby Daddy) Consulting To Maximize Your Profits!
Live Action’s second Pro-Choice Bosses video took aim at the corporations that are bragging about their abortion “benefits” for employees. The video included spoofs of real companies that have each added or increased their efforts to cover abortion-related travel (or other) expenses for pregnant employees.
Women’s responses
After the videos were shared across social media platforms, women began sharing their personal experiences with discrimination faced as pregnant employees. One woman commented that her company “won’t pay for my maternity leave but they will fly me out of state and pay for my abortion. Like can they be any more obvious about wanting us to be a slave to their machine and be miserable childless employees just to save money[?]”
Another woman commented that when she found out she was pregnant, “my female manager even offered to take me to Planned Parenthood so that I could get an abortion and she got upset with me when I told her I wasn’t going to kill my baby.” One father commented, “This is what happened to my wife. Got fired from her company 2 months after [having] the baby.”
More women shared their stories, with one saying that her retail job fired her when she was pregnant, telling her to reapply when she was ready to come back after the baby was born.
And another woman said that when her boss found out she was pregnant she was told to “get an abortion and never tell your mother.” She was 19 years old, and she quit that job and went on to graduate from college and begin a corporate career.
Another woman commented to say, “The company I worked for in 1993/94 when I was pregnant would have employed ‘NBD Consulting’. My pregnancy and motherhood was such an inconvenience to their livelihood that they fired me 2 weeks after giving birth. My two weeks was a paid vacation I had earned. I actually worked remotely 3 days after giving birth and throughout that vacation. Had I had an abortion, I would have kept my job.”
These stories show that more work needs to be done in order for pregnant women and children to truly be treated as the equal human beings that they are and not as liabilities. Women should not be pressured into choosing abortion in order to keep their jobs and save the company a few dollars. And children should not be targeted for death by abortion because a corporation sees them as a threat to their bottom line. Children are not a hindrance to success and mothers are absolutely capable of having thriving careers.
