Supermarket chain Kroger reportedly paid for out-of-state abortions following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the controversial “Roe v. Wade” case.
Kroger enacted a policy last June to provide up to $4,000 in travel costs to employees seeking out-of-state abortions in the wake of the high court’s ruling.
The resolution divided the company’s shareholders, leading to their voting for greater transparency with the supermarket chain’s charitable contributions.
Attorney Rachel Citak, president of the Cincinnati Right to Life organization, said that they have provided a pro-life video message to the company to educate the shareholders before they vote on a resolution.
“Two pro-life shareholders [Tom Strobhar and Lou Eichhold] came together to submit a resolution requesting greater transparency in Kroger’s charitable contributions, and they yielded that time to speak to the entire board of shareholders of Kroger to Right to Life of Cincinnati,” Citak said.
She also urged the company to reconsider its abortion policy, in addition to its call for greater transparency in its charitable contributions.
“Right now, Kroger shoppers, Kroger shareholders, Kroger employees, they have no idea how much of the profits are going to organizations in the abortion industry,” Citak continued.
Right to Life will double its efforts to boycott the Cincinnati-based Kroger should they fail to pass the resolution. Citak said that recent campaigns against businesses with liberal practices served as inspiration for her organization.
Axios reported that the cost of the conservative backlash against Anheuser-Busch, Kohl’s, and Target has cost the three companies’ market values a combined $28.7 billion since the beginning of April.
“I think that that was very inspiring to know that these companies that had enacted principles that were anti-woman were being held accountable,” Citak said. “We now want to have that same transparency.
“When conservatives speak with their spending, it makes a change. And now we’re seeing that shareholder advocacy can realty balance the scales as well,” she added.
This comes as the national right to abortion is no more in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.” Abortion debates will now take place in state legislatures rather than in Congress or before the Supreme Court because there is no longer a universal right to the procedure.
