AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S DOBBS DECISION in 2022, telecommunications giant Comcast announced it would give employees seeking to terminate a pregnancy as much as $10,000 to travel from states with strict anti-abortion laws to those with greater protections.
Two years later, Comcast cut a check to one of the main groups seeking to restrict abortion rights.
This month, the telecom giant sent $50,000 to Ron DeSantis’s Florida Freedom Fund, the political action committee launched by the governor to block an abortion rights initiative in the state.
Corporations often attempt to curry good will and favor with politicians by helping fill their coffers. And Comcast has a variety of interests in Florida.
But the donation to the Florida Freedom Fund caught abortion-rights groups in Florida by surprise. It was not just that it came during the final lap of a high-profile effort by the PAC to try and maintain a strict six-week abortion ban in the state, but because it seemingly conflicted with Comcast’s own employee policy and public-relations efforts around abortion access.
“It’s an example of vile corporate hypocrisy. I would encourage everyone in Florida to think about which company they choose to give their money to,” said Anna Hochkammer, executive director of the Florida Women’s Freedom Coalition, which helped draft Florida’s proposed constitutional amendment and gathered the signatures to place it before voters November 5.
Spokespeople for Comcast and NBCUniversal did not return a request for comment.
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