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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 77
Business Notes
SOCIAL ISSUES
Moral Battle In the Office
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<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.
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</article>
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