By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Kohl’s department stores and Mrs. Fields Cookies are two of the latest corporations to join what is becoming a record number of companies who have stopped donating funds to Planned Parenthood.

LifeNews is reporting that Kohl’s and Mrs. Fields Cookies are the most recent companies to announce an end to their donations to the nation’s largest abortion provider. They join Toys-R-Us, Forbes magazine, Enterprise Rental Cars, ING Financial Services, Cisco Systems, Red Lion Hotels and the Rolex watch company, all of whom have stop funding Planned Parenthood in recent months.

“Kohl’s and Mrs. Fields are no longer boycott targets,” explains Douglas Scott the president of Life Decisions International (LDI), a pro-life group that publishes a boycott list of corporations that support the nation’s largest abortion business. “This is absolutely stunning. Talk about a happy New Year.”

In a letter to LDI supporters, Scott explained: “This means that ten corporations have been dropped from the current list. It also means that, so far, a total of at least 270 corporations have agreed to stop giving money to the abortion-committing giant! Simply remarkable.”

Scott said more corporations have been removed from the Planned Parenthood boycott list in the past six months than in any six month period in the 18-year history of tracking corporate donations to the abortion business.

“Generally speaking, between the publications of boycott lists, two or three corporations agree to stop funding Planned Parenthood,” Scott said. “The current list was released in July 2010. So, one would expect that two or three corporations on the July 2010 boycott list will not appear on the December 2010 edition.”

He added: “We cannot say for sure exactly why this is happening, but more corporations have been removed from the boycott list between the July 2010 and December 2010 lists than have ever been dropped in the past.”

Scott credits the efforts of the pro-life community who contact these corporate headquarters and inform them of their intent to stop patronizing their businesses until they end their financial relationship with Planned Parenthood. He estimates that the boycott list has cost Planned Parenthood $40 million over the past two decades.

But there is still much work to be done as new companies are being added to the list all the time. Most recent additions include popular restaurants such as Bahama Breeze, the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse and The Capital Grille. Ignite Restaurants, which includes the Brickhouse Tavern & Tap and Joe’s Crab Shack, has also been added to the list.

Corporations such as The Gap, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo (including Wachovia), Nike, Time Warner, Bank of America, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, and Nationwide Insurance are all making repeat appearances on the latest boycott list.

Click here to learn more about LDI’s Corporate Funding Project.

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