I Wonder What Bart Stupak’s Donors Think About Financing Anti-Abortion Activists?

If Planned Parenthood and NARAL are just going to lie down and let access to reproductive health legislation to be written by Catholic bishops, I guess they think that’s in the best interest of the women who donate to their respective organizations.

But I wonder if Bart Stupak’s donors want to be associated with his anti-choice activism? Many PACS that donated to Stupak this year have a pretty heavy investment in consumer branding that appeals to women:

• AFLAC PAC (certainly benefit if women decide to buy private insurance rather than a public plan)
• AMAZON CORPORATE LLC SEPARATE SEGREGATED FUND (AMAZON.COM PAC)
• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)
• AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN PAC (also stands to benefit from women clients)
• COMCAST CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE- FEDERAL (ladies, you have cable, yes?)
• DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY EMPLOYEES PAC (DOWPAC), THE
• FORD MOTOR COMPANY CIVIC ACTION FUND (Ford: Designed For “Pro-Life”)
• GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (GEPAC)
• GODADDY.COM INC., PAC
• HERBALIFE INTERNATIONAL INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA HERBALIFEPAC)
• HOME DEPOT INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, THE
• HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• HUMANA INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (and another….)
  
• JOHN HANCOCK FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• RITE AID CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• SIEMENS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
• T-MOBILE USA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (T-PAC)
• UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC. PAC
• VERIZON COMMUNICATION INC. GOOD GOVT CLUB
• WELLS FARGO AND COMPANY EMPLOYEE PAC (AKA WELLS FARGO EMPLOYEE PAC)

Gosh an awful lot more brand names want to be associated with funding a huge right-wing encroachment on the reproductive rights of women than I imagined. I would have thought they’d want to avoid the brand damage that can come from that kind of thing, but that’s me.

If anyone happens to give them a call or mention it to them and gets a response, be sure to let me know.

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2. GWU Study: Yes, The Stupak Amendment Would End Coverage of Abortion Services Over Time
3. Stupak Threatens to Block Health Care over Abortion; Planned Parenthood, NARAL Take a Nap
4. Bart Stupak’s C-Street Sepsis
5. Are Blue Dogs Just “Voting Their Districts” — Or Their Donors?