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Walmart Promises to Pay for Employees to Have Abortions

Aug 22, 2022Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life, Walmart

Walmart will pay for employees to have abortions, according to the Associated Press.

The AP reports that health plans at the nation’s largest employer — which is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas — will pay for employees’ abortions “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability.”

“Health exceptions” for abortion are notoriously vague. In the past, courts have interpreted them as effectively permitting abortion on demand in many cases. That is part of the reason why Arkansas’ abortion laws do not include health exceptions. Arkansas prohibits abortion except when the mother’s life is at risk, but the law contains specific exceptions for ectopic pregnancy as well.

The AP notes that Walmart’s new health plan will also pay for employees’ travel expenses for abortion — meaning that Walmart would pay for a woman in Arkansas to travel to a state like California for an abortion.

Unfortunately, this is just the latest example of Walmart championing a liberal agenda.

In 2015 the company opposed legislation protecting religious freedom in Arkansas.

In 2021 Walmart opposed legislation protecting healthcare workers’ rights of conscience, and the company supported so-called “hate crimes” measures creating special protected classes of citizens in Arkansas.

The Walton Family Foundation has opposed Arkansas’ SAFE Act that protects children from sex-reassignment procedures, and it has budgeted $1 million for grants to pro-LGBT groups in Arkansas. The Walton Family Foundation technically is separate from Walmart, but still very closely related, because the Waltons are such large shareholders in the company.

Since 1973, abortion has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Arkansans. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade and given states the ability to restrict or prohibit abortion, companies like Walmart are using their money and influence to promote abortion to their employees. That is simply tragic.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

The Divorce Risk by Marital “Age”

Aug 22, 2022John StonestreetMarriageDivorce, Marriage

A recent article in Fatherly summed up the risk of divorce by married years. Years 1 to 2 are “high risk.” Years 9 to 15 go down to “low.” By years 15 to 20, the risk rises again to “average.”

“Newlyweds and old married couples,” concluded the article, “can never get too comfortable.” 

The numbers don’t lie, but the danger of studies like this is portraying divorce as something that just happens because of “falling out of love” or something like that. The truth about marriage is, thankfully, more complicated.

Couples committed enough to fight for their marriage stand a good chance of making it. Eighty percent of couples who participated in Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored Marriage Intensive are still together two years later.

It also matters what we believe about marriage. As of 2019, divorce in America had reached a 50-year low, but that’s because fewer Americans are getting married at all. So, the ones who marry tend to believe there’s something to it.

And there is, which is why when it comes to marriage and the health of our society, none of us should be comfortable.

George Soros Donates $9K to Democratic Party of Arkansas

Aug 18, 2022Jerry CoxElectionsElections

Billionaire George Soros continues to be active in Arkansas politics this summer.

In June, Soros gave $9,088.31 to the Democratic Party of Arkansas, according to documents filed with the Arkansas Secretary of State’s Office last month.

Soros previously gave $321,000 in April to the Arkansas Justice & Public Safety PAC — an independent expenditure committee based in Washington, D.C. — to support Alicia Walton for prosecuting attorney in Pulaski and Perry counties; Walton lost the election to Will Jones in May.

Soros is known for promoting leftwing policies such as marijuana legalization.

As far as Family Council can tell, this is the first time that George Soros has shown a direct interest in elections in Arkansas.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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