Ethical Employment Issue
Heather Pagington
Webster University
Corporate Responsibility and Society
MGNT 5990
Greg Hoffmann
January 15, 2014
Ethical Employment Issue
Working for an ethical company or for a company that makes ethical decisions is important. One organization that I could not work for is Planned Parenthood. My stance on abortion is completely Pro-Life. My beliefs come from my faith and love for children. The below includes my reasons for my objections to Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is the number one provider of abortions in the nation. Interestingly enough they promote themselves as, "America's most trusted provider of reproductive healthcare." Planned Parenthood does not like to talk about its abortion business, but it runs the nation's largest abortion chain and commits over 300,000 abortions a year (Tolck, 2013).
1. Abortion is murder. Planned Parenthood's schedule each day is a kill list (Hasson, 2013). After watching the movie The Silent Scream in high school, no one will be able to convince me that a zygote, embryo or fetus is not a human being. The baby tried to avoid the instrument that was inserted into the woman to extract him or her.
a) Planned Parenthood kills twice as many innocent human beings every week as died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.
b) Planned Parenthood also has a goal of reducing the population.
2. Debate on when birth begins is ongoing.
a) Some say life begins at conception
b) Some say life begins at the first heartbeat
c) Some say life begins when the child feels pain (usually around 20 weeks)
d) Some say life begins at birth
3. Planned Parenthood will not save or try to save a baby that is born alive when the abortion is not successful.
a) "we would not help it...we would not intubate...[or] do any extra procedures to help the person survive." (Hasson, 2013)
Abortion is a controversial subject. In my lifetime, I do not...