Two large companies removed from list

Life Decisions International (LDI) has removed two major U.S. companies from its boycott list after the corporations stopped funding Planned Parenthood.

Douglas Scott with LDI removed The Walt Disney Company from the list now that the entertainment company has gone five years without giving Planned Parenthood any money.

“This was definitely a result of people speaking out,” said Scott. “If people didn’t speak out, they wouldn’t care, they wouldn’t even know that there’s a big issue here.”

Scott said that Disney made no formal announcement about the cease in funding but simply stopped writing checks to Planned Parenthood. “The one thing a corporation hates is controversy. They just don’t want us to be a pain in their neck for very long, so eventually they do the right thing,” he said.

American Express was the other company Scott removed from the boycott list. Joe Scheidler, of the Pro-Life Action League, said that he had cut up his American Express card in symbolic protest of the company. He believes that the impact of many pro-lifers doing the same is evidenced in the company’s decision to stop giving money to Planned Parenthood.

Scott credits the efforts of pro-lifers for the changes in both corporations’ giving. He encouraged them to “never give up.” According to the LDI Web site, 87 companies have stopped giving money to Planned Parenthood in the last decade, costing the organization $20 million.

Companies still included on the LDI boycott list are The Pampered Chef, Bank of America, and Microsoft.

— E.P. News